February 20, 1996 (forest reserve)[1] August 13, 2003 (natural park)[2]
Governing body
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
The Samar Island Natural Park, in Samar, is the largest contiguous tract of old-growth forest in the Philippines. It is the country's largest terrestrial protected area, with an area of 333,300 hectares (824,000 acres).[2][3] The buffer is spread north to south over the island's three provinces (Eastern Samar, Northern Samar and Samar province) and totals 458,700 hectares (1,133,000 acres), about a third of the entire island of Samar.
The park includes some of the island's well-known natural landmarks and landscapes which have been earlier designated for protection, namely the former Sohoton Natural Bridge National Park, the former Calbiga Caves Protected Landscape, the former Taft Forest Wildlife Sanctuary, the former Jicontol Watershed Forest Reserve and the former Bulosao Watershed Forest Reserve.[4] It has a large biodiversity. It is a center of plant and animal diversity and endemism in the Philippines containing a number of threatened species belonging to the Eastern Visayas and Mindanao biogeographic region.[5][6]
^"Proclamation No. 744, s. 1996". Official Gazette (Philippines). Retrieved 20 March 2018.
^ ab"Proclamation No. 422, s. 2003". Official Gazette (Philippines). Retrieved 20 March 2018.
^"From timber to tourists: Community transformation in Samar Island". United Nations Development Programme. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
^"Protected Areas: Region VIII". Philippine Clearing House Mechanism for Biodiversity. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
^Madulid, D.A. (30 November 2000). "A Review and Assessment of the Floristic Knowledge of Samar Island" (PDF). USAid. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
^Patindol, T.A. (2016). "Post Biological Assessment of Faunal Resources in the Samar Island Natural Park" (PDF). Annals of Tropical Research 38(2): 57-73. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
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