Wildlife of the Philippines

The wildlife of the Philippines includes a significant number of endemic plant and animal species.

[4] There are 714 species of birds in the Philippines, of which 243 are endemic, three have been introduced by humans, and 52 are rare or accidental occurrences.

The Philippines has the third-highest number of endemic birds, behind the much larger countries of Australia and Indonesia.

[5] According to the EDGE of Existence Programme of the Zoological Society of London, the Philippines has the highest level of bird endemism in the world.

Six of the world's 50 most evolutionary distinct and globally endangered (EDGE) species are found in the Philippines.

The Philippines also has 50–60 endemic Platymantis frog species, making it by far the most diverse genus of amphibians in the archipelago.

[8] The endemic freshwater crocodile Crocodylus mindorensis is critically endangered and is considered the most threatened crocodilian in the world.

The recent discovery of a population of this species in the Sierra Madre mountains of Luzon brings new hope for its conservation.

More than 50 species of freshwater crabs (in the genera Carpomon, Insulamon, Isolapotamon, Mainitia, Mindoron, Ovitamon, Parathelphusa, and Sundathelphusa) are known from the Philippines and all are endemic to the country.