Endangered Species

   The Philippines is a country with a high amount of biodiversity. It is mega diverse due to the various species inhabiting it's many islands. But as years pass and people change, we tend to get so absorbed with our gadgets that we don't even realize how much the world has changed. Not for the better but for the worst. Animals and Plants, our flora and fauna, are becoming extinct and endangered. Some of these endangered animals are the Philippine Eagle, the Philippine Spotted Deer, the Philippine Freshwater Crocodile, the Tarsier, and the Tamaraw while the endangered plants are the Mangifera odorata, the Kibatalia puberula, the Phalaenopsis lindenii, the Dendrobium schuetzei, the Alocasia atropurpurea, the Hopea philippinensis, and the Cycas wadei.

 These species are one of the last of it's kind and, fortunately, are being conserved, preserved, and protected. These are done through the Philippine Raptors Conservation Project, the Philippine Spotted Deer Conservation Program, the Crocodile Conservation Program, the Philippine Tarsier Conservation Program, the Tamaraw Conservation Program, the Philippine Fisheries Code[Sec. 11, 97], the Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act [Chap. 3, Art. 2-5], and the Animal Welfare Act. Generally, these policies state that the country's wildlife resources and their habitats are to be conserved for sustainability,  endangered species are to be protected, the welfare of all animals in the Philippines are to be protected and promoted by supervising and regulating the establishment and operations of all facilities utilized for breeding, maintaining, keeping, treating or training of all animals either as objects of trade or as household pets.