An important life-support system in Zamboanga City, the Pasonanca Natural Park (PaNP), is a legislated protected area (PA) that is teeming with diverse species of rare plants and animals. It is one of the 94 PAs legislated under Republic Act 7586. as amended by RA 11038, also known as Expanded…
Lush forest vegetation with tall dipterocarps characterizes the PaNP, one of the few remaining old-growth forests in Mindanao.An important life-support system in Zamboanga City, the Pasonanca Natural Park , is a legislated protected area that is teeming with diverse species of rare plants and animals.
Four watersheds likewise exist at the buffer zone areas of PaNP, namely the Manicahan, Culianan, Ayala and Malayal. Refugia are locations which support isolated or relict populations of a once more widespread species. According to the Asean Centre for Biodiversity , which implements the Asean Heritage Parks Program as one of its flagship programs, the PaNP’s contiguous block of old and secondary-growth dipterocarp forest covers almost 90 percent of the area.
For land mammals, 24 of the 110 endemic species, and 71 of the 208 endemic species of reptiles are in the Park.Having been declared an Asean Heritage Park last October 31, 2022, in Bogor, Indonesia, PaNP is the 10th AHP in the Philippines and the 52nd in the region. It will be launched as an AHP on October 22.
There are two international birding tour sites in the PaNP—the Baluno Ecological Research and Training Center in Barangay Baluno, and Sitio Canucutan in Upper Pasonanca. Domiliza Campaner, the Protected Area Superintendent of PaNP, said she’s both “exited” and “apprehensive” about the distinct title accorded to the PaNP.While she is excited by the new challenges in protecting the PaNP, she is also apprehensive because the stakeholders, particularly the communities living in the buffer zones, may think it means tighter rules.
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