Katala Foundation, Inc. (KF) is a non-profit, non-stock and non-governmental organization that is active in protecting and conserving wildlife, particularly the

critically endangered An IUCN Red List critically endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild. As of December 2023, of t ...

Philippine cockatoo or red-vented cockatoo (scientific name: ''Cacatua haematuropygia'', local name: Katala) and other

threatened A threatened species is any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which is vulnerable to extinction in the near future. Species that are threatened are sometimes characterised by the population dynamics measure of ''critical depensatio ...

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

wildlife Wildlife refers to domestication, undomesticated animals and uncultivated plant species which can exist in their natural habitat, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wilderness, wild in an area without being species, introdu ...

in the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

. It implements the Philippine Cockatoo Conservation Program (PCCP) with target sites in the island of

Palawan Palawan (, ), officially the Province of Palawan (; ), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa. It is the largest province in the country in terms of total area of . The capital and largest c ...

, the stronghold of the species. As of 2020, 75% of the Philippine cockatoo's global population can be found within its sites. It considers the Philippine cockatoo as its

flagship species In conservation biology, a flagship species is a species chosen to raise support for biodiversity conservation in a given place or social context. Definitions have varied, but they have tended to focus on the strategic goals and the socio-economi ...

but employs an

ecosystem An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system formed by Organism, organisms in interaction with their Biophysical environment, environment. The Biotic material, biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and en ...

ic and participatory approach for conservation where people are given important roles in the entirety of the program implementation. Among the activities of the PCCP are nest protection, livelihood, habitat protection and restoration and conservation education. Katala Foundation implements in close partnership with Loro Parque Fundación and other partners: Zoological Gardens of Chester, Conservation des Espèces et des Populations Animales (CEPA) and Zoologische Gesellschaft für Arten- und Populationsschutz e.V. (ZGAP). The foundation also work on the study and protection of the endemic Philippine porcupine '' Hystrix pumila''. They were also able to hatch an egg of the Palawan forest turtle, ''

Siebenrockiella leytensis ''Siebenrockiella'' is a small genus of black marsh turtles. It used to be monotypic but now has two species with the addition of the Philippine forest turtle (moved from the genus ''Heosemys''). The genus was originally erected in 1869 by John E ...

''. The turtle is critically endangered due to illegal wildlife trade.

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External links

Official Website of the Katala Foundation, Inc.Loro Parque FundaciónZoological Gardens of Chester
Nature conservation in the Philippines Animal welfare organizations based in the Philippines Bird conservation organizations Reptile conservation organizations

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