Live Breaking News & Updates on Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park

Email
In the island forests of the western Pacific, there’s an otherworldly animal known as the Philippine tarsier.
With bat ears, suction cup–like fingers, and giant golden eyes, the creatures would be easy to mistake for extras on a sci-fi movie set. But in fact, tarsiers are primates and distant relatives of humans.
“They really look like little aliens jumping from tree to tree,” says Gab Mejia, a National Geographic Explorer and photographer based in the Philippines.
The Philippines’ 7,600-plus islands are the cradle for a mind-boggling number of diverse species. According to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 5 percent of the world’s plant species live in the Philippines. And nearly half of the creatures found on these islands exist nowhere else. ....

Sierra Madre , Philippines General , United States , Merlijn Van Weerd , Gab Mejia , Jayson Ibanez , Philippine Tarsier Foundation , Mabuwaya Foundation , National Geographic Society , Convention On Biological Diversity , Tamaraw Conservation Program , Philippine Eagle Foundation , National Geographic Explorer , International Union For Conservation Of Nature , Mounts Iglit Baco National Park , Biological Diversity , Philippine Tarsier , Wildlife Sanctuary , International Union , Neil Anthony Del Mundo , Tamaraw Conservation , Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park , Philippine Eagle , South America , Explorer Gab Mejia , சியரா மாட்ரே ,