List of protected areas of the Philippines

The Republic Act 7586 (Filipino: Batas 7586, English: Republic Act No. 7586. ), It also bears the nickname of National Integrated Protected Areas System, ( German: Integrated national nature reserve system ), short NIPAS Act. This law determines the legal framework for the designation, use and management of landscape, nature conservation and marine protected areas and national parks in the Philippines. It is intended to protect the biodiversity of the Philippines, the natural foundations of life of the population and sustainable development of the Philippines. It was given the force of law through the ratification of the congress, in 1991, and the signing of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, on 1 June 1992.

History of the Law

The Philippines is among the mega diversity regions of the world, the state of the environment in the Philippines began in the 1970s and 80s always catastrophic forms. During the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos new protected areas have indeed continued to be reported, however, by widespread corruption, nepotism and mutual benefit of the ruling elites, failed the previous conservation laws and ever larger regions were virtually deforested to obtain wood profits with the then main export. After the EDSA Revolution, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources ( DENR ) began in 1987, the formulation of a concept which aims to facilitate the sustainable development of the Philippines feed. For this purpose, expert groups were formed, the consulted foreign non-governmental organizations and the World Bank. The government has introduced in 1989 a concept that was introduced under the name of strategy for economic growth, taking into account the protection of natural resources, biodiversity and their vital ecosystems and the general environmental quality. One of the key elements of the strategy paper was an integrated protected area system. For this paper, the concept of laws for the National Integrated Protected Areas System was developed.

At the same time the demand for a better government protection of the environment and the biosphere evolved in public. This culminated after the Ormoc Tragedy, 5 November 1991, in a society as a whole discussion about better environmental laws than by Tropical Storm Thelma over 8,000 people in the Central Visayas found death. Investigations by NGOs and the DENR gave at the massive deforestation of the region around Ormoc City for the cultivation of monocultures such as sugar cane, as the primary cause for the largest natural disaster in the Philippines since 1945. Through the now -onset massive support could the law Congress happen in 1991 and the House of Representatives and signed by the President in 1992. At its launch, 202 conservation areas have been designated as protected areas under the NIPAS Act on an area of 2.57 million hectares. On June 29, 1992 by the DENR Administrative Order No. 25 adopted the guidelines contained, which should support the implementation of the law on regional and local level and, for example Management Committee ( Protected Area Management Board ( PAMB ) ) for the designation and management of protected areas provides at the local level. To finance the implementation of the Act specifically the Integrated Protected Areas Fund ( IPAF ) was launched, which was to spend 75 % of the budget for the financing of protected areas and conservation projects.

International aspects of the NIPAS Act

The Philippines is a signatory of the following international agreements have international legal personality:

Convention on Biological Diversity, signed in 1992, ratified in 1993
UNESCO World Heritage, signed and ratified in 1985
Agreement on the Conversation of Nature and Natural Resources of the ASEAN Member States in 1985
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, ratified in 1994
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, ratified in 1994

The adoption of the NIPAS Act, the government, parliament and government of the Philippines in the implementation of the content and objectives of the above-mentioned conventions in national law are supported.

Classifications

The protected areas include the following classifications: Strict nature reserve (National Park), Natural Park, Natural Monument, Wildlife sanctuary, Protected landscapes and seascapes, resource reserve, natural biotic areas. Other protected areas are protected areas, buffer zones and the Indigenous cultural community areas.

A total of approximately 35,000 square kilometers of the area of the Philippines were designated as nature reserves in accordance with the guidelines of the NIPAS Act. Of these, approximately 21,300 km ² 13,700 km ² terrestrial and marine protected areas.

The conditions of the NIPAS Act met in 1992, among others, the following protected areas:

Danao Lake on the island of Leyte
Baganga Bay Protected Landscape and Seascape
Marikina Watershed Forest Reserve
Mainit Hotspring Protected Landscape

National parks and protected areas of the Philippines

Luzon island group:

National Parks: Bulusan | Caramoan | Isarog | Libmanan Caves | Mayon

Nature Reserves: Abasig - Matogdon Mananap | Bicol Natural | Catanduanes Watershed

National Parks: Banahaw - San Cristobal | Hinulugang Taktak | Quezon | Palay - Palay - Mataas Na Gulod | Taal Volcano

National Parks: Arayat | Aurora | Bataan | Biak -na- Bato | Minalungao

Nature Reserves: Subic Watershed | Angat Watershed

Protected areas: Salinas | Bessang pass

National Parks: Aurora | Biak -na- Bato | Fuyot | Minalungao

Nature Reserves: Angat | Marikina | Northern Sierra Madre | Pamitinan | Peñablanca

Island of Mindoro & Palawan:

National Parks: Lake Naujan | Iglit - Baco

Group of islands of the Visayas:

National Parks: Central Cebu | Guadalupe Mabugnao | Sudlon

Nature reserves: Lake Danao | Olango Wildlife | Rajah Sikatuna | Tanon | Twin Lakes

National Parks: Kuapnit Balinsasayaw | MacArthur Landing | Sohoton -Natural Bridge

National Parks: Bulabog - Putian | Taklong Iceland

Island group of Mindanao:

Nature Reserves Agusan Marsh | Andanan Watershed | Cabadbaran -Santiago | Mahaba Iceland | Siargao Islands

Nature Reserves: Allah Watershed | Lake Buluan | Libungan Watershed | Mount Matutum | Sarangani Bay

People Power Revolution Tropical cyclone Convention (norm) Association of Southeast Asian Nations Lake Danao (Leyte) Bulusan Volcano Natural Park Libmanan-Caves-Nationalpark Quezon Protected Landscape Central Luzon Biak-na-Bato-Nationalpark Minalungao-Nationalpark Bangan-Hill-Nationalpark Sierra Madre (Philippines) Fuyot Springs National Park Mount Mantalingajan Central Cebu Protected Landscape Guadalupe-Mabugnao-Mainit-Hot-Spring-Nationalpark Lake Danao (Cebu) Olango Island Group Eastern Visayas Kuapnit Balinsasayao National Park Western Visayas Bulabog-Putian-Nationalpark Sagay Marine Reserve Caraga Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary Cotabato Mount Hamiguitan Mabini (Compostela Valley) Mount Hibok-Hibok Kalatungan Mountain Range Kitanglad Mountain Range Mount Malindang

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