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Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary ♥ August 2015
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Facts & Figures of Agusan Marsh Wild Life Sanctuary
Location : Lies between 125°52’ and 126°02” longitude and 8°07 and 8°19 latitude, Agusan del Sur, northeastern Mindanao
Area : 14,835 hectares
Buffer Zone : 4,360 hectares
Maximum Depth
: 4 meters
Altitude : 55 m. asl.
Legal Basis : Proclamation No. 913 dated October 31, 1996
Conservation Status
: Extremely High critical (EHc) per results of the National Biodiversity Conservation Priority Setting Project undertaken by PAWB-DENR jointly with Conservation International and UP-CIDS
Covered Municipalities
: 4 municipalities: Bunawan, Loreto, La Paz, and Veruela
Major Marsh Settlements
Mabalili and San Marcos in municipality of Bunawan
Climatic Condition
: Type IV Climate
Main Outlet : Agusan River
Major River Catchment
: Adgaoan, 93,704 ha; Umayan, 88,813 ha; Biga, 45,154 ha; Baolo, 26,976 ha; AoAo, 29,314 ha; Agusan, 166,204 ha; Simulao, 99,778 ha; Sulibao, 27,993 ha; and Gibong, 83,760 ha.
Annual Flooding Cycle
: Between October and February
Wetland Habitat Types
: Open water (oxbow lakes, floodplain lakes and ponds); Flowing water; Herbaceous swamp; Scrub swamp; Swamp forest; River bank; Inundated forest.
Fishes : Twenty six (26) species belonging to Sixteen (16) families [Hubilla-Travis, et.al, 2008]
Birds : Nineteen (19) species
Butterflies : Sixty-five (65) species Reptiles : Two (2) crocodile species; 22 lizards
species and seven (7) snake species Amphibians : Fourteen (14) amphibian species
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A gusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary is an important area for conservation of bio-logical diversity being identified as Extremely High critical (EHc) per results of the National Biodiversity Conservation Priority Setting Project undertak-en by PAWB-DENR jointly with Conservation International and UP-CIDS.
The marsh is the floodplain of Agusan River where nine (9) major
rivers drain in it and acts as the storage of rain waters and reduces the immediate downstream flow of flood water into Butuan City and nearby population centers.
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Lolong, a 6.4 meters (21-foot) crocodile is the world’s biggest saltwater crocodile caught at Agusan Marsh, Bunawan, Agusan d e l S u r o n September 2011 but died on February 10, 2013.
INDO-PACIFIC / SALTWATER
CROCODILE Crocodylus porosus
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Twenty six (26) fish species belonging to sixteen (16) families are found in Agusan Marsh (Hubilla-Travis, et.al 2008). The native fishes are likely to consist only of Puntius sp., Channa striata, Clarias macrophalus, Anabas testudineus, Glossogobius giurus, Megalops cyprinoids, and Mugil sp.
SPOTTED BARB Puntius binotatus
CLIMBING PERCH Anabas testudinueus
SNAKEHEAD MURREL / MUDFISH Channa striata
WHITE GOBY Glossogobuis guiris
INDO-PACIFIC TARPON Megalops cyprinoides
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Agusan Marsh is the home of some 127 birds which belongs to 47 families according to Haribon Foundation in February 1999 survey.
PHILIPPINE SWAMPHEN (Porphyrio pulverulentus)
EMERALD DOVE Chalcophaps indica
Ecological significance of the Agusan Marsh:
Serves as the catch basin of Agusan-Davao Plain in Eastern Mindanao where nine major rivers drain in.
Plays as a vital role in the socio-economic development of the provinces of Agusan del Norte and Agusan del Sur.
Ecologically significant wetland ecosystem in the Philippines with seven habitat types harboring a unique assemblage of flora and fauna.
Holds the largest expanses of marsh left in the Philippines, which represents wetland habitat types and contains a very large area of habitat type (the swamp forest) and a peat swamp forest not found anywhere else in the Philippines.
Home of the largest known remaining populations of Crocodylus porosus and possibly of Crocodylus mindorensis in the country.
LITTLE SPIDERHUNTER Arachnothera longirostra flammifera