MAHALTA: The Significance of the Mangyan, Halcon and Tamaraw preservation efforts in keeping the Mindoro heritage.

Mindoro is located in southern Luzon and the 7th largest island in the Philippines. The marine environment of Mindoro hugely contributes to overall national and global biological diversity. The Mindoro Strait is one of the most economically productive fishing grounds in the country and a migration route of commercially important fishes. Mindoro, being one of the major bio-geographic zones of the Philippines, is nationally and globally recognized as an important conservation area because it harbors numerous unique flora and fauna that inhabit a variety of natural habitats from terrestrial, freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems. Several species found in Mindoro are endemic only to the Philippines and to the island and cannot be found elsewhere in the world (Oliver and Heaney 1997). <a href="https://queenapadron02929.medium.com/mahalta-the-significance-of-the-mangyan-halcon-and-tamaraw-preservation-efforts-in-keeping-the-b996c1cd8073">Read More</a>