The Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center is a 23.85-hectare (58.9-acre) zoological and botanical garden located in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
The Ninoy Aquino Parks & Wildlife Center has a lagoon, an aquarium, a playground, botanical garden and a Wildlife Rescue Center, which the Department of Environment and Natural Resources uses as a temporary shelter where confiscated, retrieved, donated, sick, abandoned, and injured wild animals are placed to be taken care of.
The park houses several indigenous plants and animals such as crab-eating macaques, water monitors, Philippine deer, binturongs, Palawan bearded pigs and several varieties of birds.
11038 (Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 2018) signed by President Rodrigo Duterte in July 2018.
[5] A manmade lagoon is situated within the grounds of the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center which hosts various fishes including catfish, tilapia, and snakehead.
[9] Ugnayan, a permanent installation art created by Luis Yee Jr. (Junyee) is located within park grounds.
The artwork is made of recycled hardwood pillars and metal and features the cooperation of the 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation[10] The NAPWC hosts the National Wildlife Rescue and Research Center (NWRRC) which is officially a wildlife rescue and research center to differentiate its role from a conventional zoo.
[11] The Philippine Native Plants Conservation Society estimated that there were a total of 4,500 mature trees inside the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center in 2012.