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United Nation's 17 Sustainable Developmental Goals:

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United Nation's 17 Sustainable Developmental Goals:

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Location

Palawan is a long and narrow island lying southwest and west of the main group of Philippine islands. Palawan is the country's southeast frontier with Malaysia. It is bounded by the South China Sea to the northwest and by the Sulu Sea to the south. To the south is the island of Borneo and further west is the socialist Republic of Vietnam. It forms a link 70 47' and 12022' north latitude and 117000' and 119051' east latitude. The border municipalities are nearer and more accessible to other provinces in the country and to Malaysia than its capital. Located west of the main Philippine chain of islands, it is approximately 672 kilometers southwest of Manila while its southern tip, the municipality of Balabac, is only 97 kilometers away from Sabah.

Political subdivision

A first class province, Palawan is subdivided into 23 municipalities, 1 independent city and 431 barangays. Eleven (11) municipalities are located in the mainland. The other 12 are island municipalities, which are accessible by motorized bancas and launches plying between the municipalities and the city of Puerto Princesa. Politically, the province is subdivided into three congressional districts.

Location of the Provincial Capital

The provincial capital is the City of Puerto Princesa. Although the city is the official seat of provincial government of Palawan, Puerto Princesa City is an independent city and is not controlled by the province. The capital city is strategically located in the midsection of Palawan mainland bound to the east by the Sulu Sea, to the west by the West Philippine Sea, to the north by the municipalities of San Vicente and Roxas, and to the south by the municipality of Aborlan. It is the chief seaport and airport in the east coast and the center of trade, commerce and education. It has 66 barangays of which 35 are urban barangays and 31 are rural barangays.

Muncipalities of Palawan

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Official Website : Provincial Government of Palawan

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Palawan is a long and narrow island lying southwest and west of the main group of Philippine islands. Palawan is the country's southeast frontier with Malaysia. It is bounded by the South China Sea to the northwest and by the Sulu Sea to the south.

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Palawan, island, the southwesternmost large island of the Philippines.

Palawan is long and narrow and trends northeast-southwest between the South China and Sulu seas. It has a maximum width of 24 miles (39 km) and a mountainous backbone that runs its entire 270-mile (434-km) length, with Mount Mantalingajan (6,840 feet [2,085 metres]) in the south as its highest peak. The archipelago off the southern tip that includes the Balabac and Bugsuk island groups is a remnant of a land bridge that connected Palawan and the island of Borneo during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago); for that reason the animal life and vegetation are more closely related to those of Borneo than to those of the other Philippine islands.

Palawan's long, irregular coastline is fringed with coral reefs, and some 1,800 smaller islands and islets lie near Palawan; the main island groups are the Calamian (north), the Dumaran-Cuyo (northeast), and the Balabac-Bugsuk (south). A discontinuous coastal plain that seldom extends more than 5 miles (8 km) inland supports most of the island's population. The plain, which is best developed on the southeastern coast, constitutes the main agricultural area and has the island's only all-weather road. Puerto Princesa, on the east-central coast of Palawan island, is the island's largest city.

Scattered settlement and shifting agriculture predominate, with rice as the main food crop. Corn (maize), coconuts, beans, and sweet potatoes are also grown. Large-scale commercial fishing operations are carried out at Puerto Princesa and Taytay. Mineral resources include mercury, silica, and chromite. Oil drilling off Palawan's northern coast began in 1992. Most of the island is the forest homeland of the Batah, Palawan, and Tagbanuas ethnic groups. Christian migrants (Visayans, Tagalogs, Ilocanos, and Bicolanos) have settled in the north and east. There are some Moro (Muslim) villages in the south. The Tabon Caves on the island's isolated southwestern coast are an important archaeological site. Areas on and around Palawan-notably in the Calamian Group-were heavily damaged by Super Typhoon Haiyan, a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated the central Philippines in early November 2013. Area 4,550 square miles (11,785 square km). Pop. (2000) including associated nearby islands, 755,412; (2010) including associated nearby islands, 994,340.

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Palawan, island, the southwesternmost large island of the Philippines. Palawan is long and narrow and trends northeast-southwest between the South China and Sulu seas. It has a maximum width of 24 miles (39 km) and a mountainous backbone that runs its entire 270-mile (434-km) length, with Mount

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Affects SDG #13:
https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13

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Illegal logging in Philippines' Palawan stokes fears of a mining resurgence

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Pala'wan indigenous community leader Simpio Mata trudges through the natural forest of Mount Domadoway, in the southern part of the Philippines' Palawan province, at least twice a month. He does this primarily to check on the presence of towering trees the Pala'wan consider sacred homes for tau't kekeywan (forest spirits).

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Image of a fallen tree due to the illegal logging in Southern Palawan.

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Rezoning of forest to allow mining by Palawan authorities 

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Rezoning of forest to allow mining by Palawan authorities 

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Affects SGD #15:
https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal15

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Karol Ilagan, Andrew Lehren, Anna Schecter, Rich Schapiro, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

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Palawan authorities rezone forest to allow mining

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A nickel mine is on the brink of a major expansion in Mt. Bulanjao, a rainforest system considered by indigenous peoples as their ancestral home and protected by a Palawan conservation law

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An image of a Philippine Pangolin a species which can be seen in Mount Bulanjao.

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Legend of Primary Forest in the Philippines 

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Legend of Primary Forest in the Philippines 

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As seen, the island of Palawan is in included in the areas that have primary forests.

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The Palawan Biosphere Reserve is a cluster of islands composed of one long main island and smaller groups of islands around it. The 1,150,800 hectares of the biosphere reserve include the entire Province of Palawan Island, which is the westernmost province of the Philippines.

Ecological Characteristics

The province of Palawan is known as the Philippine's "last ecological frontier".

The Palawan BR is an archipelago composed of main island and more than 1,700 islands. It is endowed with rich natural resources and highly diverse flora and fauna found in both land and sea.

Based on the IUCN classification, it has 105 out of the 475 threatened species in the Philippines. Of the 105 threatened species, 67 are endemic to the Philippines, while 42 of the 67 Philippine endemics are Palawan endemics.

Its coastal and marine ecosystems include coral reef (379 species of corals), seagrass meadow (13 species), and mangrove (31 species, distributed in 44,500 hectares of mangrove forests, the highest remaining mangrove cover in the Philippines). It also harbors several marine mammals such as marine turtles, dugong, and whale shark. The characteristics of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems are also diverse. It is composed of oldgrowth and secondgrowth tropical rainforest, karstic limestone, forest over ultramafic rocks, casuarinas and beach forest.

They serve as habitats to freshwater fish (total of 18 Philippines endemics), amphibians (26 Philippines endemics), reptiles (69 species), birds (279 species), migratory birds, terrestrial mammals (58 species, 16 are Palawan endemics).

Socio-Economic Characteristics

The total population in 2000 is 755,412 with an annual population growth rate of 3.6%. The Palawan BR is also home to approximately 57 ethnolinguistic groups with 3 indigenous peoples: the Tagbanua, Palaw'an, and the Bataks.

The major economic activities are agriculture and fisheries. Other important industries are tourism, on-shore and off-shore mining, gathering of minor forest products, and pearl farming.

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Last updated: October 2018

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The Palawan Biosphere Reserve is a cluster of islands composed of one long main island and smaller groups of islands around it. The 1,150,800 hectares of the biosphere reserve include the entire Province of Palawan Island, which is the westernmost province of the Philippines. The province of Palawan is known as the Philippine's "last ecological frontier".

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Location of Tree Cover Loss in the Philippines 

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Location of Tree Cover Loss in the Philippines 

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Philippines Deforestation Rates & Statistics | GFW

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In 2010, Philippines had 13.2Mha of natural forest, extending over 62% of its land area. In {year}, it lost 46.8kha of natural forest, equivalent to 27.4Mt of CO₂ of emissions.

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An image of a Horned Frog species that can also be seen in Mount Bulanjao.