PROTECTED AREA. The twin falls inside the Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park. A team led by Filipino botanist Shiella Mae Olimpos, a flora specialist of the Philippines Biodiversity Conservation Foundation Inc., will launch a flora expedition inside the protected area on Negros Island in July.(Photo courtesy of DENR-Western Visayas) BACOLOD CITY - A flora expedition will be held in the Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park (MKNP) in July to update the database on the various plant species found inside the protected area on Negros Island. As of Wednesday, the team led by Filipino botanist Shiella Mae Olimpos, a flora specialist of the Philippines Biodiversity Conservation Foundation Inc. (PhilBio) and a Master of Science student at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, has been gearing up for the project. "I'm very happy that Shiella will lead this initiative. She is a PhilBio staff and her thesis is about the Mt. Kanlaon flora," PhilBio president Errol Gatumbato said in an interview over
Rare frog thought to be extinct rediscovered in Mindanao
Published March 12, 2021 11:18am A pair of Filipino biologists has rediscovered in Mindanao a rare frog species that was thought to be extinct decades ago. Guttman s stream frog (
Pulchrana guttmani), first seen in 1993, was rediscovered by Kier Mitchel Pitogo and Aljohn Jay Saavedra in the forests of Mount Busa, according to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Guttman s stream frog is an amphibian so rare, it was thought to be extinct for decades since it was first recorded, USAID said in a Facebook post. In a paper published in Herpetological Notes, Pitogo and Saavedra said the Guttman s stream frog is possibly the rarest amphibian in the Philippines.
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