November 25, 2015
Iloilo
— By next year, researchers will find out how many of the endangered hornbill
bird species still exist in Panay Island.
The
Biodiversity Partnership Project of the Region 6 office of the Department of Environment
and Natural Resources (DENR-6) will lead the first simultaneous hornbill count
in the central Panay mountains.
In
collaboration with the Philippine Biodiversity Conservation Foundation Inc.
(PBCFI), the survey will try to establish the existence of hornbills, which are
only endemic to Panay and Negros Islands.
Over
the years, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has classified
the Visayan Tarictic as endangered while the dulungan (also known as
Rufous-Headed) hornbill as critically endangered.
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