Protecting ASAP bird species on Tawi-Tawi Island

Species Conservation Fund
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© Ivan Sarenas/Balete Conservancy

Project aims

  • Raise awareness amongst local school children on the island's threatened species and their habitats

  • Initiate the process for having Languyan forest legally declared as a Critical Habitat

Results

The Provincial Governor’s office and the Education Ministry’s office approved, endorsed and distributed over 300 posters highlighting the island’s important and globally threatened bird fauna.
Progress was made discussing the education curriculum with the Curriculum Development Officer of Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, which governs Tawi-Tawi; there was interest to include more of the island’s non-marine fauna into the state-level education.

Reports

 

AT A GLANCE

 

Organisation: Balete Conservancy

Country: Philippines

Year project started: 2021

Species: Sulu Hornbill, Blue-winged Racket-tail, Sulu Bleeding-heart, Philippine Cockatoo

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