Calauit Safari Park is a wildlife sanctuary in the Philippines which was originally created in 1976 as a game reserve featuring large African mammals, translocated there under the orders of President Ferdinand Marcos during his 21-year rule of the country.

The first historically documented discussions regarding the Calauit Safari Park took place when Ferdinand Marcos approached David Anthony "Tony" Parkinson,[3] an Englishman whose business venture at the time was the translocation of African animals into zoos, on the sidelines of the Fourth session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD IV) held in May 1976 in Nairobi, Kenya.

[5] Marcos approached Parkinson with a "briefcase-full" of money and hired him to collect large African mammals that would be brought to an island in the Philippines to populate a new "Safari park.

[7] Before the park opened in 1977, an estimated 254 families,[4][8] mostly members of Tagbanwa tribes, were evicted and relocated to Halsey Island, a former leper colony[9] 40 kilometers away.

[11] While Calauit was selected for the game resort because it had a climate very similar to Kenya, it differed from the imported animals' original environment because it had bamboo forests instead of savannahs.

[2] Between May 1976 and August 1977,[4] 104 feral African animals from eight species were brought to the island: 12 bushbucks, 11 elands, 11 gazelles, 15 giraffes, 18 impalas, 12 waterbucks, 10 topis, and 15 zebras.

On March 3 that year, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples turned over to the Tagbanwa community a property title for Calauit Island and 50,000 hectares of surrounding ancestral waters.

[18] The Palawan government reached out to settle the disputes between the locals and the authorities in the park, leading to a resolution outlawing the hunting of animals in the area by the middle of the year.