Natural History

Calauit Safari Park

Calauit Safari Park is a wildlife sanctuary in the Philippines which was originally created in 1976 as a game reserve featuring large African mammals, translocated there under the orders of President Ferdinand Marcos during his 21-year rule of the country. Today, populations of reticulated giraffe and Grévy's zebra still roam the park, while the populations of waterbuck, common eland, impala, topi, bushbuck, and Thomson's gazelle have died out. But an expansion of the program initiated by local officials in the 1980s to conserve indigenous species has resulted in the successful conservation of Calamian deer, Palawan bearded pig, Philippine crocodile, Philippine porcupine, Binturong, and Philippine mouse-deer. The park is located in Calauit Island, a 3,700-hectare (9,100-acre) island in the Calamian Islands chain that lies off the coast of Palawan in the Mimaropa region.

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See also

• ▸Cypress Hills (Canada)
• ▸Icebreaker
• ▸Feathered dinosaur

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