27/01/2021
A wide variety of the planet's animal species call the Philippines home. Conservation International, a nonprofit environmentalist group founded in 1987, recognizes the Philippines as one of only 17 mega-diverse countries in the world. Mega-diverse countries are nations that shelter the bulk of Earth's animal and plant life. In other words, these countries have extreme biodiversity in terms of genetic, genus, and bio-network mixtures.
With so much biological diversity, the country is also home to a large number of threatened animal species. As of the day this article was published, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), has declared 418 animal species in the Philippines to be threatened: meaning they are either vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered, according to the IUCN red list criteria.
1. Philippine eagle
2. Philippine freshwater crocodile
3. Tamaraw
4. Walden's hornbill
5. Visayan warty pig
6. Philippine cockatoo
7. Negros bleeding-heart
8. Philippine naked-backed fruit bat
9. Philippine forest turtle
10. Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat
11. Hawksbill sea turtle
12. The Philippine tarsier
13. Philippine spotted deer
14. Sulu Hornbill
15. Negros Fruit Dove
16. Flame-breasted Fruit Dove
17 . Giant Clams
18. Cebu flowerpecker
19. Golden-capped fruit bat
20. Net coral
21. Long polyp green
22. False flower coral
23. Sei whale
24. Blue whale
25. Fin Whale
26. Dinagat hairy-tailed rat
27. Limbless worm skink
28. Loggerhead turtle
29. Dog-faced water snake
30. Humphead wrasse
31. Green turtle
32. Black shama
33. Panay Crateromys
34. Negros shrew
35. Flame-templed babbler
36. White-winged flying fox
37. Mindoro zone-tailed pigeon
38. Japanese night heron
39. Apo swallowtail
40. Spiny turtle
41. Calamian deer
42. Streak-breasted bulbul
43. Catanduanes narrow-mouthed frog
44. Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat
45. Luzon peacock swallowtail
46. Frog-faced soft shell turtle
47. Tawitawi brown dove
48. Mindoro tree frog
49. Hazel's forest frog
50. Mount Data forest frog
