1wild Foundation is exploring an exciting opportunity to support a collaboration of ETHZ and KATALA Foundation, a species conservation organization based in Palawan, Philippines. This project will link Prof. Loïc Pellissier, Professor of Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and at WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research), and Dr. Peter Widmann, founder and director of KATALA Foundation. KATALA is a non-profit, non-stock, non-governmental organization which has been protecting and conserving threatened endemic wildlife, particularly the Philippine Cockatoo, Palawan Forest Turtle, Palawan Porcupine, Calamian Deer, Balabac Mouse-deer, Palawan Pangolin and Palawan Hornbill. Four of these species are critically endangered, the others are endangered or vulnerable, and several are also EDGE species, showing the importance to protect this hotspot of biodiversity.

The project idea, launched in partnership with the WildinSync initiative of ETH Foundation, is to…

Except that this is about saving, not hitting them. In the north-west of the Philippines - a global biodiversity hotspot - lies the province of Palawan. Several highly endangered species live on this archipelago. These include the Calamian deer (endangered), the Balabac mouse deer (endangered), the Palawan pangolin, the Palawan forest turtle and the Philippine cockatoo (all three critically endangered). In the provincial capital Puerto Princesa City, the Katala Foundation is keeping an eye on these species. They may well need support. We'll update our readers once we know more. Just in case you'd like to help save several birds with one stone...

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