Philippines

SPI: 26.26

Species Protection Index Average: 42

National Report Card: Philippines

The Philippines is an archipelago in Southeastern Asia. Its coasts border the Philippine Sea and South China Sea in the Western Pacific Ocean. Most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rainfed agriculture. Philippines has high biodiversity rarity of terrestrial land vertebrates at a global scale. When analysed as single taxons, the rarity of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles is also high. The rarity of marine fish and mammals is also high. Challenges to biodiversity include deforestation; soil erosion; air and water pollution; and degradation of coral reefs and mangrove swamps.
10%

of land currently protected

1155

total land vertebrate species

610

endemic land vertebrate species

Species of significant conservation interest

Tamaraw

108
amphibians / 94 endemic
504
birds / 139 endemic
224
mammals / 140 endemic
319
reptiles / 237 endemic

Information on this page was sourced from the CIA World Factbook and the Half-Earth Project Map.

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