Marquez, Judie Franz 06/09/14 It is where one of the largest remaining virgin or primary

BA Political Science II Ecol I 10:30-11:30 forests in the Philippines is located, supplying the water of
TThS major rivers and their tributaries in Mindanao.

Pantaron Mountain Range It is also where the Talaingod Manobos, the guardians and
Location: Bukidnon, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, stewards of Pantaron, live, particularly in the town of
Misamis Oriental, Agusan del Norte, and Agusan del Sur Talaingod in Davao del Norte, where a humanitarian mission
Land Area: 1.8 million hectares or 12.4% of the entire was conducted.
Mindanao region
Talaingod alone has 6,000 hectares of primary forests of
Pantaron, making it an important watershed.
Mammals Birds Amphibians
It contains valuable dipterocarp forests with some of its
Species Local Species Local Species Local hardwood species including Lamotan, Red Lawaan, Iron
Name name name Wood, and Kamagong, among others. There is high
biodiversity and endemicity in Talaingod. The region’s forests
Monkey Unggoy Hornbills Kalaw, Monitor Ibid link important breeding sites of the Philippine eagle at
specie Kayamutan, lizard Mount Kitanglad and Mount Apo, a testament to the immense
Talogkos biodiversity it hosts.

Tarsier Tinokak Doves Alimokon Crocodile Buwaya Philippine warty pigs, Philippine deers, civets,
Mindanao tarsiers, monkeys, and different
Warty Baboy Hawk Kabogkol Frogs Bakbak hornbills were just some of the diverse wildlife that the
Pig ramo locals shared to be living in the forests.

Dwarf Tungkul Wild Kalasmon

Pig it chicken

Civets Milo

Forest Umbaw Source: Endangered virgin forests, threatened indigenous

rat peoples in Mindanao by Clemente Bautista, National
coordinator of the Kalikasan People’s Network for the
Deer Binaw Environment

Cordillera Central Mountain Range

 (Gran Cordillera)
Location: Benguet, Abra, Kalinga, Apayao, Mountain
The Cordillera Central is a massive mountain range situated
Province, Ifugao, and Baguio
in the northern central part of the island of Luzon, in the
Land Area: about 1/6 of the whole Luzon Island with a
Philippines. Several provinces bound it, namely Benguet,
total area of 18,300 km2 Abra, Kalinga, Apayao, Mountain Province, Ifugao, and
Baguio, a chartered city located entirely within Benguet. In
the north, it terminates at Pasaleng Bay, Ilocos Norte, where
Mammals Birds Reptiles the coastal bridge Patapat Viaduct winds through. It links
with the Sierra Madre through the Caraballo mountains in
Wild Pig Wild Chicken Snakes Nueva Vizcaya province. During Spanish times, the whole
range was called Nueva Provincia, (New Province).
Wild Deer Eagle Frogs Agroforestry has been defined as “a collective name of land-
use systems and technologies where woody perennials
Philippine Deer Koch pitta Gecko (trees, shrubs, palms, bamboos, etc.) are deliberately used in
the same land management unit as agriculturalcrops and/or
animals either in some form of spatial arrangement or
Giant Bushy- Flame-crowned Skink temporal sequence.” (Lasco, 1986)There is no word for
Tailed Cloud Rat Flowerpecker “agroforestry” in the Cordillera region of the Philippine
(“bowet”)
archipelago. But the land and forest are part of the life of the
Long-Haired Fruit Buzzing indigenous peoples of the region. And they have practiced
Bat Flowerpecker systems that nurture the land and forest for centuries.
For the Igorots of the Cordillera, the forests are more than
Dwarf cloud rat Luzon Water just sources of wood, lumber, and exotic plant and animal
Redstart, species; the land is life itself. It is the source of their food, it
Rhyacornis is their wealth, it is the playground and training ground of
bicolor their children, it is their home. They must nurture the land
and the forests so it shall remain capable of nurturing them.
Carpomys White-cheeked
melanurus Bullfinch

Source: Indigenous agroforestry practices in the

Cordillera