Botanical Gardens, Zoological Parks, and Wildlife Reserves

[kennethologist]

Originally Posted by r93k401

Is it true that Payatas dumpsite is just to the right of La Mesa Dam? Check this link...
http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=14712131...15&l=0&m=a&v=2

actually malayo-layo pa...

[jbkayaker12]

The pond needs circulation, it's stagnant. Fresh water must be piped in (inflow) and also outflow of the water should be flowing for it to remain clean. You can tell na madumi yong pond.

[oboi]

[ishtefh_03]

ang cute nung banaue inspired na garden...

[salamangkero]

cool pics

[sandrn]

Please post news reports and pictures of the tropical rainforests left in country today. Include the ones that can be found sporadically in the cities. For example:
Quezon City - La Mesa Dam Eco Park, NA Parks and Wildlife, and the QC Memorial Circle.
Manila - Mehan Garden, Chinese Garden, and the Manila Zoo( that is not only home to starving animals but also towering decades-old trees).
Laguna- Maria Makiling (UP Los Banos Botanical Garden)

[dinabaw]

Davao City still have alot of rainforests....just travel 15-20 minutes from the city centre and you're already on its footstep.

here's an example of recreating a logged area , the 80 hectare Eden Nautre Park this is 95% MAN-MADE rainforest !!!


Eden photos....







i'll post more .. the Baracatan rainforest in Toril which is just 15-20 minutes from city center.

[WawaY[625]]

yo dinabaw! grabe naman yung 15-20 minutes nung pumunta tayo i think almost an hour yun ha, and mabilis pa takbo natin nun..

[dinabaw]

oi ingon ko rainforest kay sa Toril naa naman rainforest ,pero kanang Eden murag 45 minutes hehehe

[dinabaw]

@waway: kini way minutes....hahaha

“PTA Ground”, a 7 hectare sports area at the heart of Davao City, Philippines that has been the venue of athletic competitions and public activities has lately become idle as the city government pondered on its future as it plans to set up an athletic ground outside the center of the city.

Recently a decision was made to convert it into a nature park, the brainchild of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as he patterned it after the 843-acre Central Park in New York City. The Human Development International lauds the decision of the Mayor to establish a mini forest park in the center of the city amidst bustling traffic and tall buildings for it will give people the opportnunity to commune with nature in the very heart of the city. Further instill a high state of public consciousness on the need to protect and preserve the environment. This project is part of the Mayor’s all out effort to bring a “people centered and ecologically balanced development” in the city as it grows to become a great bustling metropolis in the country and in the East Asian Growth Area comprising of countries like Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and others. It is the largest city in the world in point of area and endowed with nature’s
beauty and resources making it not only a food basket but also an important tourist destination.

The mayor said big trees from other areas can be transported and planted in the projected nature park called "balling". The city government is determined to pursue this P70 Million project which will be a model for other cities to follow. It is expected that planting of the big trees will be finished by the year end.

Ian Jon Mendoza, HDI Philippines Executive Director and Ambassador of the Call to Save the Mountains of the World lauded the City Mayor for the remarkable project. Mendoza said, that said undertaking supplements the Call to Save the Mountains of the World done at Mt. Apo, Philippines last February 25, 2003 which the mayor himself has supported - a Davao Initiative that has become a global movement

Above: Proposed Lay-out of the Nature Park
Topmost Right: Shows trees being installed as an initial step in converting the newly elevated area.
Bottom: The Central Park in New York City from
which the idea was patterned by the City Mayor

www.humandevintl.com/hdforum/page22.html

[dinabaw]

Davao Nature Park

[dinabaw]

[jonno]

Originally Posted by dinabaw

@waway: kini way minutes....hahaha

“PTA Ground”, a 7 hectare sports area at the heart of Davao City, Philippines that has been the venue of athletic competitions and public activities has lately become idle as the city government pondered on its future as it plans to set up an athletic ground outside the center of the city.

Recently a decision was made to convert it into a nature park, the brainchild of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as he patterned it after the 843-acre Central Park in New York City. The Human Development International lauds the decision of the Mayor to establish a mini forest park in the center of the city amidst bustling traffic and tall buildings for it will give people the opportnunity to commune with nature in the very heart of the city. Further instill a high state of public consciousness on the need to protect and preserve the environment. This project is part of the Mayor’s all out effort to bring a “people centered and ecologically balanced development” in the city as it grows to become a great bustling metropolis in the country and in the East Asian Growth Area comprising of countries like Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and others. It is the largest city in the world in point of area and endowed with nature’s
beauty and resources making it not only a food basket but also an important tourist destination.

The mayor said big trees from other areas can be transported and planted in the projected nature park called "balling". The city government is determined to pursue this P70 Million project which will be a model for other cities to follow. It is expected that planting of the big trees will be finished by the year end.

Ian Jon Mendoza, HDI Philippines Executive Director and Ambassador of the Call to Save the Mountains of the World lauded the City Mayor for the remarkable project. Mendoza said, that said undertaking supplements the Call to Save the Mountains of the World done at Mt. Apo, Philippines last February 25, 2003 which the mayor himself has supported - a Davao Initiative that has become a global movement

Above: Proposed Lay-out of the Nature Park
Topmost Right: Shows trees being installed as an initial step in converting the newly elevated area.
Bottom: The Central Park in New York City from
which the idea was patterned by the City Mayor

www.humandevintl.com/hdforum/page22.html

I've always wondered why nobody in Manila considers copying New York's Central PaRK - it would be literally a breath of fresh air to the polluted Metropolis. This is the first time I've found out they're going to have one in Davao - thou I've never been to Davao it doesn't surprise me that they've got a project like this with Mayor Duterte - he seems to be a man who knows very much the value of time; preferring work and action over the more pleasurable debates, discussions, investigations our Senators are fond of. Isnt Davao also the place where firecrackers are banned? How I wish someone would copy that here in Manila, we dont need firecrackers - we could just have a "centralized" fireworks display like what they have in the US, Sydney and other major cities.

[dinabaw]

Originally Posted by jonno

I've always wondered why nobody in Manila considers copying New York's Central PaRK - it would be literally a breath of fresh air to the polluted Metropolis. This is the first time I've found out they're going to have one in Davao - thou I've never been to Davao it doesn't surprise me that they've got a project like this with Mayor Duterte - he seems to be a man who knows very much the value of time; preferring work and action over the more pleasurable debates, discussions, investigations our Senators are fond of. Isnt Davao also the place where firecrackers are banned? How I wish someone would copy that here in Manila, we dont need firecrackers - we could just have a "centralized" fireworks display like what they have in the US, Sydney and other major cities.

Manila have La Mesa Park (if you consider the metro), the nice thing about Davao City it's very young and huge. One of the priority projects of Davao is Clean and Green, our environmental awareness is high maybe bec of Mt. Apo , the Philppine Eagle and rare species of flora and fauna .
yes we have " no fireworks" ordinance ... sometimes it's already deafening not hearing any fireworks for almost 6 years but i hope the Davao intergrated council (all Davao provinces) will come up n as you said centralize fireworks display in the middle of Davao Gulf

[rage@cebu]

more than 50% of Cebu City's land area is Timberland and Watershed...


Urban Jungle...

[WawaY[625]]

kailan daw mag open ang PTA park?

[great184]

Does anyone have actual natural rainforest pics?

[dinabaw]

Audubon International certifies Malagos Resort as cooperative Santuary
Malagos Garden Resort host a rare collections of indigenous Philippine flora and fauna with several species of butterflies also thrive in its enclosed sanctuary area. With in its area, a birdspark has been built to ensconsed rescued and rehabilitated birds. The resort has an unpretentious amenities for quiet relaxation, catching up with one's reading, or satisfying one's aesthetic sense by looking at vari-colored plants and flowers so arranged with simplicity.

The landscape artist had used rooftops of shedhouses, trellises, fern trees and fences to support orchids and ornamentals creating an over-all harmony of quiet and relaxed ambience.

There is a waterfall – its presence a cooling effect – that seems to flow with a very slow movement of the waters down a man-made creek into a pond at the entrance of the resort.

An attention-getter are rows of orchids blooming profusely.

Just looking at the flowers for a few minutes in such a quiet atmosphere will draw one's attention to nature's power to create such a wonderful and marvelous harmony of colors.

The resort is definitely Filipino in concept. Even the materials used for the garden's infrastructure were carefully made from selected native materials.

The most striking feature of the resort is the garden occupying over half of the entire area and fully planted with native orchids and orchid hybrids coming from the Puentespina orchid laboratory.

"Our original concept is to make this garden a sanctuary fornative orchids, many of which are endangered" said Charita Puentespina, popularly known as Davao's waling-waling lady for having "returned back home" the waling-waling after almost a century ofneglect.

Puentespina was the first to successfully culture the waling-waling in 1985.

The once forested portion of Malagos, was part of the home of the waling-waling which disappeared due to neglect and habitat degradation.

Other amenities of the resort like the restaurant and the swimming pool were added last year.

The Garden resort is a jewel to the Puentespinas – a vision of a dream taking shape; an island haven providing an alternative to sands, beaches and the sun, said Bert Puentespina Sr.

[dinabaw]

Originally Posted by great184

Does anyone have actual natural rainforest pics?

Mt. Apo

[death327]

My gosh... kelangan ko makapunta dito. Mukhang virginial ang place. Last punta ko sa Mt Apo was 21 years ago. At wala pa akong kamuangmuang sa mundo.