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The Ninoy Aquino Parks & Wildlife Center has a lagoon, an aquarium, a playground, botanical garden and a Wildlife Rescue Center, which the Department of Environment and Natural Resources uses as a temporary shelter where confiscated, retrieved, donated, sick, abandoned, and injured wild animals are placed to be taken care of.
Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center Diliman, Quezon City 14°39′04″N 121°02′33″E / 14.65114°N 121.04247°E / 14.65114; 121.04247 ( Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife
The first important legislation that formed the basis of the current system of national parks and protected areas in the Philippines is Act No. 648, enacted in 1903 by the Philippine Commission. This act authorized the civil governor to "reserve for civil public purposes, and from sale or settlement, any part of the public domain not ...
The National Parks Development Committee (NPDC) is an agency of the Department of Tourism (DOT) of the Philippines that is mandated to develop, preserve, and manage Rizal Park (Luneta) and Paco Park in Manila and other parks that may be assigned to it. [4]
In 2012, there were 240 protected areas in the Philippines, of which 35 have been classified as National Parks. [2] By June 22, 2018, an additional 94 critical areas were designated as national parks, increasing the total national parks to 107, when President Rodrigo Duterte signed the E-NIPAS Act of 2018 .
The La Mesa Ecopark is a public park located in Greater Lagro, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is in the La Mesa Watershed Reservation and near the La Mesa Dam . The park closed temporarily on February 12, 2024 after the ABS-CBN Foundation returned management of the park to the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System . [ 2 ]
On February 12, 2019, approximately 22 Manila Bay land reclamation projects were announced by the government, sparking criticism. Among those to be affected by the reclamation projects is the Las Piñas–Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area. [10] [11] [12]
The Malabon Zoo first opened around 1989 and was founded by the Manny Tangco in Barangay Potrero in Malabon, Metro Manila. In March 2020, community quarantine measures imposed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of the zoo to the public and caused financial strain to the zoo's maintenance. This led Tangco launching an ...