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Sibuyan Island in the Philippines – threatened and in need of conservation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

S. M. Goodman  and
N. R. Ingle
S. M. Goodman
Affiliation:
Field Museum of Natural History, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA.
N. R. Ingle
Affiliation:
Environmental Research Division, PO Box 2232, 1062 Manila, Philippines.
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Abstract

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In the spring of 1992 a group of zoologists completed a faunal survey of Sibuyan Island, a small mountainous island in the central Philippines. This island, which is oceanic in origin and during the Pleistocene at least was not connected to any other island mass, has an exceptional amount of intact primary forest, including lowland forest, a habitat that has all but been destroyed in the Philippines. The mammalian fauna of Sibuyan Island is exceptionally high in endemic species and also contains many other species that are threatened throughout the Philippines. Current logging operations severely threaten the remaining areas of lowland forest on the island. With forests of the Philippines under intense pressure, the most realistic hope for conservation lies in the protection of forests on islands where the population and political pressures are less intense. Sibuyan Island is an excellent candidate for such initiative.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , July 1993 , pp. 174 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1993

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