Puerto Princesa Mayor Lucilo Bayron and all of
the local executives of Palawan should join forces in preserving the highly
diverse eco-system of the province recently visited by a team from National
Geographic.
The NatGeo team, according to writer Jason Bittel
as quoted by the Philippine News Agency, was wonderfully surprised to
rediscover in Palawan two species that for decades had been thought to be
already extinct.
The two rediscovered species
are the Palawan toadlet (Pelophryne albotaeniata) and the Malatgan River
caecilian, both amphibians.
Bayron recently posted an
overwhelming victory in a recall election, thus affirming his constituents’
full support for his environmental advocacies and financial rehabilitation
program.
“Science dreaded that the
species whose last record was lost in a museum during World War II was lost
forever,” wrote Bittel.
The caecilian, thought to
be a worm by a member of the team, was found accidentally in Cleopatra’s
Needle, a “mystical mountain surrounded by lush forest in Puerto Princesa.”
The discovery of the two
species thought to be already extinct should reinvigorate conservation efforts
in our country which is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. Surely, many
other species thought to be already extinct are just waiting to be rediscovered
anew. -end-
Image by Huffington Post
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