Local protection of the Philippine Crocodile, Isabela Oriole and Hawksbill Turtle in Community Conserved Areas

ASAP Species Conservation Grants

  The challenge The Northern Sierra Madre mountain range in Northeast Luzon is one of the last wilderness areas of the Philippines with the largest contiguous forest of the country and important coastal and freshwater wetlands. The habitat is home to many threatened species, including three ASAP species: Philippine Crocodile, Isabela Oriole and Hawksbill Turtle. These ASAP species are threatened by hunting, egg poaching, nest destruction and loss and degradation of habitats by agricultural conversion, pollution and destructive fishing. By…