Forest Cover (2001) Topography image resolution: 500 m 100 0 100 200 300 400 500 Elevation (in meters) Conservation 4000 kilometers 3000 scale: 1/10,000,000 projection: Sinusoidal Outcomes 2000 central meridian 122° east longitude 1500 note: forest is defined here as >51% tree cover per grid cell 1000 500 Batanes Islands Philippines 100 Baguio Protected Landscape 120°E and Seascape Baguio 1 / 1,800,000 L u z o n 16 April 2007 Manila Manila S t r a i t 20°N 20°N Calbayog Roxas Calbayog Roxas Bacolod Ormoc Ormoc Bacolod Iloilo Iloilo Cebu Cebu Puerto Princesa Puerto Princesa Cagayan de Oro Cagayan de Oro Babuyanes Islands Davao Zamboanga Zamboanga Davao Kalbario-Patapat s National Park Buguey e Apayao Wetlands Lowland Forest North Eastern Cagayan Conservation Outcomes Protected Landscape and Seascape C Philippines a n g a y a 50 0 50 100 150 scale: 1/1,800,000 n projection: Sinusoidal i kilometers central meridian 122° east longitude Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape scale: 1/97,000,000 hotspot boundary Manila town (national capitals underlined) projection: Sinusoidal central meridian 122° east longitude p S O U T H Malasi Lake biodiversity conservation corridor TALINES country border Balbalasang-Balbalan National Park Ban-ban Key Biodiversity Area* C H I N A p river Change in Protection Status of Key CORDILLERA Northern Key Biodiversity Areas with Sierra Protected Status in the Philippines Biodiversity Areas in the Philippines Madre i L u z o n Siburan Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) site lake Natural By assessing the percentage of Key Biodiversity This figure demonstrates trends in the percentage of the defined S E A Park Areas (KBAs) with formally protected status we KBAs and AZE sites under some form of legal protection for the can analyze one measure of progress towards time period 1996 – 2006. l † protecting the most important sites for protected area (extent, geographic extent pending) preventing biodiversity loss. Safeguarding 100 Mt. Pulag unprotected KBAs as well as strengthening 90 KBAs (n=128) AZE sites (n=10) h t National Park i management regimes of existing protected w 80 North Central i * Key Biodiversity Areas are targets for achieving site-level conservation outcomes. CEPF funding is not available for marine conservation. s SIERRA s e † u t Sierra Madre i KBAs is a high conservation investment priority. t 70 IUCN Categories Ia, Ib, II-VI s a MADRE Mountains t s Baguio E Z 60 n A o i t d Currently 45 of 128 KBAs, or 35.2% of KBAs, c 50 n e a t o s benefit from official safeguard status in the r 40 A p l B a Philippines Hotspot. This figure includes 5 of 10, K Quirino Protected h 30 f m r o Landscape o or 50% of AZE (Alliance for Zero Extinction) f % 20 l a Casecnan sites. t o 10 The CEPF Niche for Investment Protected T 0 o Landscape A total of 83 KBAs presently lack formal The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund Donors, governments, and nongovernmental Ag n 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 governmental protection. Five of these are AZE P (CEPF) and Conservation International (CI) use organizations must safeguard biodiversity in the Year of Protected Area Establishment sites; Siburan, Mt. Mantalingajan, South and "conservation outcomes" as the scientific Philippines through a range of conservation North Gigante Island, Mt. Kambinlio and Mt. underpinning for focusing conservation activities. A few globally threatened species will Aurora Memorial Redondo and Tawi-tawi Island. These sites investment geographically and thematically. require species-specific action, such as disease P National Park should be considered the highest priority areas These targets comprise the effective mitigation or controlling invasive species. Most Mt. Dingalan for immediate investment. While conservation 125°E conservation of a set of species, sites, and investment, however, will need to be at the site H Zambales action to safeguard these KBAs could take the broader-scale corridors that is essential for level, to safeguard the habitats in which Mountains form of designating formal protected areas, for preventing biodiversity loss. Identifying these threatened species are found. Safeguarding a I some sites community based management or targets ensures that conservation action focuses KBA may involve declaring a new protected L some other conservation activity may be most on the species at the greatest risk of extinction, area, expanding or strengthening management Candaba Swamp appropriate. and on the sites and corridors that are most in an existing protected area, initiating BATAAN- I important for their protection. The targets also community-based conservation and resource ZAMBALES Angat Watershed P provide a baseline against which the success of management, promoting ecotourism, or a 15°N 15°N investments can be measured. This map depicts number of other initiatives. At the landscape Forest Reserve P the geographic targets for achieving level, conservation will include fostering land Mts. Irid- Manila Bay Angilo and Polillo I conservation outcomes in the Philippines uses that maintain key ecosystem processes Island Biodiversity Hotspot. and that are compatible with the needs of area- Binuang N demanding species (for instance, agroforestry). Bataan Natural Park and Subic Bay Forest Reserve In 2004, Conservation International, in CEPF's niche for investment in the Philippines E collaboration with the Haribon Foundation, has been to provide incremental support to Manila Mariveles UP Land Grant (Pakil and Real) initiated a two-year process to identify these conservation within existing protected areas and Mountains • data-driven conservation targets for the to generate momentum for biodiversity Laguna S Philippines. This work builds upon and refines conservation around protected areas, with the de Bay E the results of a number of earlier priority setting goal of enhancing habitat connectivity and Mts. Banahaw-San Cristobal Protected Landscape exercises, including the 117 Important Bird enabling greater civil society participation in Mt. Makiling A Forest Reserve Areas (IBAs) identified in 2001 by the Haribon conservation efforts. Specific strategic directions Mts. Palay-Palay Quezon Protected Landscape Foundation and Birdlife International, and the and investment priorities identified by CEPF can Mataas-na-Gulod Taal Volcano Mt. Labo 170 terrestrial conservation priority areas (CPAs) be found in the Philippines Ecosystem Profile National Park Protected identified in 2002 through the Philippine (http://www.cepf.net). Landscape Pagbilao and Tayabas Bay Catanduanes Watershed Biodiversity Conservation Priority-setting Ragay Mt. Kulasi Caramoan Peninsula Program (PBCPP), which involved a consortium Since resources for biodiversity conservation are Lalaguna Marsh Forest Reserve Gulf of experts from universities, NGOs, and the limited, there is a need to further prioritize government. among these targets. At the species level, prioritization should identify the most highly BICOL Conservation targets at the species level are threatened species requiring urgent species- Mt. Isarog those that are globally threatened with specific conservation action. However, since Mt. Calavit Natural Park Wildlife Marinduque extinction, meeting the criteria of Critically much investment is at the site level, KBAs must Sanctuary Puerto Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable also be prioritized. CI uses a prioritization Wildlife Galera Mindoro Sanctuary according to the IUCN Red List. According to the method based on irreplaceability and 2004 Red List, there are 491 threatened species vulnerability, thus using the same considerations Lake Naujan National Park in the Philippines, of which 209 are vertebrate as in identifying site-scale targets in the first Mt. s species. place. Therefore, we prioritize sites that contain Halcon Bacon-Manito highly threatened species with very small global Targets at the site level are termed Key ranges; among these sites, KBAs that also face Iglit-Baco Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), and are sites of site-based threats become higher priorities. At Mountains global biodiversity conservation significance that the very top of the list are the Alliance for Zero Siburan Mt. Hitding Bulusan Volcano e are actually or potentially manageable for Extinction (AZE) sites (highlighted on the map in Natural Park conservation. KBAs are identified based on the red). The Alliance for Zero Extinction, a joint Apo Reef presence of species for which site-scale initiative of biodiversity conservation Marine Malpalon conservation is deemed necessary to avoid organizations around the world, aims to prevent Natural Park Mt. Hinunduang Romblon Island extinctions in the short and medium term: imminent extinctions by identifying and CENTRAL Balogo Watershed globally threatened species, restricted-range safeguarding sites that represent the last MINDORO Mt. Guiting-guiting species and globally significant congregations of refuges of highly threatened species. An AZE Natural Park S a m a r m Calauit Island SAMAR species. A total of 128 KBAs were identified for site is a discrete area containing 95 percent or threatened and endemic amphibians, mammals, more of the global population of one or more birds, reptiles, and freshwater fish, using species listed as Critically Endangered or Calamian Busuanga Island confirmed locality data for each target species. Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Calbayog o KBA boundaries were delineated based on Group information on the habitat requirements of With more than 20,000 endemic species, the Biliran and species, along with data on land management Philippines is a “megadiversity” country, one of Northwest Panay Peninsula Coron Island Maripipi Island units (protected area boundaries). In addition, 17 nations that together hold two thirds of earth’s Culion Natural Park Samar c 51 sites were identified as Candidate KBAs, or biological diversity. It is also one of the most Island research priorities; if additional data or surveys threatened of the 34 biodiversity hotspots, with Island n South and North confirm the presence of target species within less than six percent of original forest cover la Natural k these sites, they too will become priorities for remaining intact.