“We don’t care because we don’t know”

: color key: red for threatened bird localities

These maps show how the SEP-core forest protected zones are overlapped with large and small-scale mining applications. The map showing the Philippine forest cover represents the total remaining forest cover, as of year 2000. The PCSD (Palawan Council for Sustainable Development) claims that Palawan’s forest cover is still the largest in the country. It seems impressive, until you look at the entire map of the archipelago. That impressive forest cover are the defined only as mountain forests,excluding the lowland forests. Both kinds are now virtually overlapped with permits to explore and mine.