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Mount Apo Natural Park

Mount Apo Natural Park was declared a national park in the Philippines in 1936 and 2004 to protect over 54,000 hectares of land. In 1987, a National Geographic Society publication identified Mount Apo as having potential for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its high biodiversity. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources submitted Mount Apo for inclusion on the UNESCO world heritage list in 2009 due to its status as the center of endemism in Mindanao with diverse flora and fauna across its lowland, mid-mountain, and high mountain forests.

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Mount Apo Natural Park

Mount Apo Natural Park was declared a national park in the Philippines in 1936 and 2004 to protect over 54,000 hectares of land. In 1987, a National Geographic Society publication identified Mount Apo as having potential for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its high biodiversity. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources submitted Mount Apo for inclusion on the UNESCO world heritage list in 2009 due to its status as the center of endemism in Mindanao with diverse flora and fauna across its lowland, mid-mountain, and high mountain forests.

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Mount Apo Natural Park[edit]

Mount Apo rainforest in 2021

On May 9, 1936, Mount Apo was declared a National Park with Proclamation No. 59 by
President Manuel L. Quezon followed by Proclamation No. 35 of May 8, 1966,[12] then Proclamation
No. 882 of September 24, 1996.[13][14] On February 3, 2004, the approval of Republic Act No.
9237 established Mount Apo as a protected area under the category of Natural Park with an area of
54,974.87 hectares (135,845.9 acres); with two peripheral areas of 2,571.73 hectares (6,354.9
acres) and 6,506.40 hectares (16,077.7 acres) as buffer zones, provided for its management and for
other purposes.[15][16]

UNESCO World Heritage list[edit]

Forest clearing in Mount Apo's old-growth rainforest. Such clearing practices have now been permanently
banned throughout the park and its buffer zones in a bid to strengthen the park's integrity
for UNESCO designation.

In 1987, the National Geographic Society based in Washington, DC in the United States, published a


book entitled, "Our World's Heritage", where Mount Apo was noted as a 'site of Word Heritage
caliber'.[17] The cover of the book also featured Mount Apo's iconic Philippine eagle, along with three
other heritage sites which have already been designated as "UNESCO World Heritage Sites". [18]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) submitted Mount Apo on December
12, 2009 for inclusion in the UNESCO world heritage list. The mountain is considered by DENR as
the center of endemism in Mindanao. It has one of the highest land-based biological diversity in
terms of flora and fauna per unit area. It has three distinct forest formations, from lowland tropical
rainforest, to mid-mountain forests, and finally to high mountain forests. [3]

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