Filipeanut, Author at Philippine Wildlife Art

Touring Mindoro for the Tamaraw Symposium!

Filipeanut — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:31:19 +0000

Every October for Tamaraw Month, two unique animals take a tour of their own home in Mindoro. Tala the Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis) and Mindy the Mindoro Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba platenae) pigeon like to visit Mt. Siburan, Mt. Iglit, and Mt. Baco, mountains where generations of their friends and relatives have lived side-by-side. Unfortunately as time goes on, there […]

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Why the Philippine Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan or PBSAP is important

Filipeanut — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:59:38 +0000

How can we find balance between economic growth and stability, while sustaining our environment? If you take a closer look, a country’s wealth and health is linked to nature. Unfortunately protecting one of the world’s most biodiverse countries while supporting the needs of more than 110 million people still presents a challenge – but nothing […]

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Protect Manila’s last mangroves

Filipeanut — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:11:59 +0000

There are only a few areas in Metro Manila that have mangroves left. Would you destroy them? By protecting one of Metro Manila’s last mangrove forests, we help protect what little is left of mangroves along the 200 km stretch of the Manila Bay coastline. Of the 90,000 or so hectares of mangroves that once […]

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Visayan Spotted Deer draft genome

Filipeanut — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 07:11:27 +0000

Do you have an instruction manual to your life? The Visayan Spotted Deer has one now, thanks to the Philippine Genome Center Visayas and Siliman University Center for Tropical Conservation Studies (CENTROP). Researchers took DNA from ear tissue of a Visayan Spotted Deer, and are now analyzing it to determine how to best conserve the […]

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Asian Waterbird Census

Filipeanut — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 03:53:41 +0000

Where there is water, there are birds. Time for the annual Asian Waterbird Census! The AWC happens every January, when people count waterbirds, or birds “ecologically dependent on wetlands” (Wetlands Int. 2018). Wetlands include coasts, mangrove areas, rivers, lakes, marshes and other similar areas. By counting these birds together in various places in Asia, we […]

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William the Whale Shark for AteneoBOx

Filipeanut — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:37:21 +0000

Here is a butanding fashionista SPOTTED, with a SPLASH of color! William the Whale Shark is the mascot of AteneoBOx, a student organization that supports biodiversity awareness and animal welfare. Their Ocean’s Week campaign involves community engagement between Ateneo students, faculty, and Bantay Dagat communities in Calatagan, Batangas. In our collaboration two “whale pun” illustrations […]

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4th International Summit on Grey-faced Buzzard & Migratory Raptors

Filipeanut — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:33:46 +0000

Join Sawi the Grey-faced buzzard for an event as unique and special as raptor bird migration! Sanchez Mira, a town located at the northern coast of the island of Luzon in the province of Cagayan, is an important part of the Sawi or Grey-faced Buzzard‘s Flyway Corridor. This year, 2024, Sanchez Mira will be hosting the […]

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Rafflesia bulbasaurs!

Filipeanut — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:00:29 +0000

Is this a new species… of Pokemon? There are 14 species of Rafflesia flowers in the Philippines. The Bulbasaur is a “species” of Pokemon, one of over 1,000 species in the popular Japanese media franchise. At Philippine Wildlife Art, there is a Bulbasaur for every Philippine Rafflesia species: Rafflesaurs! So far, 8 of the 14 […]

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Hornbills of the Philippines with Philippine scripts (i.e Baybayin)

Filipeanut — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:32:50 +0000

How many hornbill species are in the Philippines? There are 10*! They are named after their horn-shaped bills, typically with a casque on top. 7 of the 10 PH hornbills are threatened*, and two of them are among the most endangered hornbills in the world. One of them is the Dulungan 🙁 Philippine scripts featured […]

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Zoom event: Marine megafauna with Jessica Labaja of LAMAVE

Filipeanut — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 10:55:31 +0000

Take a dive with fish of all sizes, while staying dry! All you need is SEA-gnal! Jessica Labaja swims with fish big and small, and works with fishers to understand the fish we all love and enjoy. She is Executive Director of Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines. They are dedicated to the conservation of […]

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