Environmentalists to check Negros biodiversity

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Sunday, May 28, 2017
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BACOLOD City – For the 16th time, environment advocates, volunteers and tourism offices will monitor the biodiversity in three protected areas in the Negros Island Region.

This annual biodiversity monitoring started in 2001.

This year, it will be conducted next month synchronized with a hornbill count in the three different protected areas which are as follows:

* Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park on June 1

* Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park on June 9

* Northern Negros Natural Park on June 20

This year, the monitoring is open to the public. Volunteers can join the count.

The data collected are seen to help in the conservation and management of the parks and improve local resources management.

This activity is a partnership with Philippines Biodiversity Conservation Foundation (PBCFI), Provincial Environment Management Office of Negros Occidental, the Environment and Natural Resources Division of Negros Oriental, Negros Oriental Tourism Office, Negros Occidental Tourism Division, Negros Bird Conservation Society, the provinces of Negros Occidental and Oriental, the Protected Area Management Board of each protected areas and the Provinces of Negros Occidental and Oriental.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources and PBCFI are conducting trainings on biodiversity monitoring in different protected areas in Negros for local government units within the different protected areas, and for students, non-government organizations and different government agencies.

Each citizen scientist brave enough to conquer the forest of Balinsasayao Twin Lakes Natural Park, Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park and Northern Negros Natural Park will be assigned to different established trails and count all the wildlife, particularly birds.

Next month’s hornbill count will focus on how population changes within time during breeding season and non-breeding season.

“We will count all the species that will be observed in each transect; however we will highlight birds since they are the early warning indicators of the health of our protected areas. This is the first step in knowing what is happening in our protected areas,” a release from DENR read. (PIA-Negros Occidental/PN)

 

 

 

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