With the launch of the 15-year Philippine Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan in 2025, the country is no longer just ...
A nickel stockpile towers over farmer Moharen Tambiling's rice paddy in the Philippines' Palawan, evidence of a mining boom that locals hope a new moratorium will tame. "They told us before the start ...
The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate species unless urgent conservation ...
Foreword : the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition / Terrence M. Gosliner and Meg Burke -- Expedition participants and logistics / Terrence M. Gosliner and Meg Burke -- From parachutes to ...
Just in time for Halloween, six new bat species have been discovered by researchers from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Field Museum in Chicago, and Lawrence University in Wisconsin. This ...
Fishers in the Philippines’ Batangas Bay are struggling to make ends meet and feed their families as nearby coastal areas are developed into a natural gas import hub, Mongabay contributor Nick ...
A new study warns that 15-23% of the Philippines’ 1,294 terrestrial vertebrates face extinction, with amphibians and mammals at highest risk. Endemic species are most vulnerable, yet many lesser-known ...
Locals in the Philippines' Palawan hope a moratorium will stop a nickel mining boom - Copyright AFP Ted ALJIBE Locals in the Philippines' Palawan hope a moratorium ...
Flowers as well." A biodiversity hotspot, Palawan also holds vast deposits of nickel, needed for everything from stainless steel to electric vehicles. Once the world's largest exporter of the ...