Let Us Save the Endangered Philippine Wildlife Species

                            

Lesson on TATAKalikasan, Ateneo de Manila University

87.9 FM Radyo Katipunan, Every Thursday, 11 to 12 a.m.

Let Us Save the Endangered Philippine Deer 

and Other Wildlife Species

Dr Abe V Rotor

 

Endangered Philippine Eagle and Philippine Tarsier

Author (right) and house guest Carlo from DSWD hold a mounted head of Philippine Deer*, now listed among the threatened wildlife species.  The wooden head is one of a dozen specimens, sculped from actual deer horns, by a local artist and former professor of the University of Northern Philippines, Jose Lazo Jr, (lower photo). 

 

Author visits sculptor Jun Lazo at his shop in San Vicente IS. Mounted specimen 

are on display at the Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur. 

  

A wall mural of a family of deer amuses a neighborly lass at the author's

 city residence in QC.

Other endangered animals in the Philippines

1. Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta)
2. Philippine Spotted Deer (Cervus alfredi)
3. Writhed-billed Hornbill (Aceros waldeni)
4. Sulu Hornbill (Anthracoceros montani)
5. Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis)
6. Philippine Bare-backed Fruit Bat (Dobsonia chapmani)
7. Mindoro Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba platenae)
8. Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi)
9. Negros Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus arcanus)
10. Flame-breasted Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus marchei)
11. Visayan Warty Pig (Sus cebifrons)
12. Philippine Freshwater Crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis)
13. Giant Clams (Tridacna spp. and Hippopus hippopus)
14. Cebu Flowerpecker (Dicaeum quadricolor)
15. Tarsier, the smallest primate, found in Bohol (Carlito syrichta)

 

Flying Lemur and Tamaraw, found mainly in Mindanao 

and Mindoro Island, respectively.

Other Endangered Species in Other Parts of the World

 

Loggerhead sea turtle, so with the hawk-billed turtle; 

Siberian Tiger, so with the Bengal Tiger

 

American (California) Condor; Lemur, so with our local flying lemur

 

Arowana,  so with the Arapaima; right, Sea Otter

 

A huge pile of bison skull - a case of species annihilation led by 

the legendary Buffalo Bill in the pioneer era of the USA.

Critically Endangered. 3079 animals and 2655 plants are Endangered worldwide, compared with 1998 levels of 1102 and 1197, respectively

*The Philippine deer (Rusa marianna), also known as the Philippine sambar or Philippine brown deer, is endemic to the Philippines. It grows to 1.3 meters and 49 kg when mature. It belongs to Family Cervidae.

Acknowledgement: Internet, Wikipedia