‘Kalibasib’ gone but still a model in saving tamaraw population

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Rangers gathered at the Tamaraw Conservation Program (TCP) office in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro province, to pay their final respects to a very special ward.

“My children were all saddened. If not for Kali, I wouldn’t have sent all nine of them to school,” said Angagan, who joined the TCP as a ranger in Mt. Iglit-Baco National Park in 1996.Also on Saturday, the tamaraw’s skull , limbs , and tail were transported to Quezon City for the tedious process of animal stuffing and preservation.

Tamaraw population in the wild is now down to 600, from an estimated 10,000 in 1900, according to the Biodiversity Finance Initiative of the United Nations Development Programme .ADVERTISEMENT Even in death, Kalibasib was more than an icon of wildlife conservation as he would also be providing researchers the baseline data on the tamaraw’s internal organs.

 

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