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- 1. MINDORO Biome: Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests or TROPICAL RAIN FOREST Precipitation: 2000 mm or 200 cm Weather types: rainy dry season SIGNIFICANCE: Mindoro is one of the beautiful places in the Philippines, sadly it is also one of the most deforested areas in the country. As hospitality and tourism students we must value our environment because this is the main attraction of the hospitality industry. Without a destination tourism will not be possible so we must care for our tourist destinations
- 2. MINDORO: FLORA WAX FLOWER PITCHER COCONUT PLANTS TREE
- 3. MINDORO: FAUNA FRUIT BAT TAMARAW MINDORO BLEEDING HEART
- 4. MINDORO: FLORA PITCHER PLANTS Burke Nepenthes (Nepenthes burkei) •Climbing plants found in tropical areas of India, Malaya, Australia •have the leaves prolonged into a pitcher-like appendage •There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria
- 5. MINDORO: FLORA COCONUT TREE Cocos nucifera L •A feather-leaved palm (Cocos nucifera) •cultivated in tropical regions for food, beverages, oil, thatching, fiber, utensils, or ornament. •Also known as the tree of life
- 6. MINDORO: FLORA Wax Flower Hoya Mindorensis •Evergreen climbing vines or shrubs of the genus Hoya •Also found in India, China, Australia etc. •having opposite, simple leaves and axillaries, umbellate flower clusters. •Also called porcelain flower, wax vine
- 7. MINDORO: FAUNA MINDORO BLEEDING HEART Gallicolumba platenae •A distinctive but rare bird, the last confirmed sighting of the Mindoro bleeding-heart in the wild was in 1997. •Medium-sized •ground dove •named for the small, yet distinct, orange patch on its whitish breast
- 8. MINDORO: FAUNA TAMARAW Bubalus mindorensis •Aka. Mindoro Dwarf Buffalo •Bovine endemic •Originally found all over Mindoro, but because of human habitation, hunting, and logging, it is now restricted to only a few remote grassy plains •Endangered species.
- 9. MINDORO: FAUNA MIDOROR STRIPE-FACED FRUIT BAT Styloctenium wallacei •Fruit-eating bats of the suborder Megachiroptera, •Live in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
- 10. SOURCES: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nepenthes_burkei_ASR_062007_mt_halcon_mindoro.jpg • http://www.123rf.com/photo_2897268_nepenthes-burkei-is-a-lowland-tropical-pitcher-plant-native-to-the-philippines.html • http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Nepenthes_burkei • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut • http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Cocos_nucifera.html • http://www.myhoyas.com/mindorensis.htm • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya • http://www.bigislandgrowers.com/AHcomp/AHmind1.php • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindoro_Bleeding-heart • http://www.arkive.org/mindoro-bleeding-heart/gallicolumba-platenae/image-G24514.html • http://www.iucnredlist.org/sotdfiles/gallicolumba-platenae.pdf • http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2 FTamaraw&rct=j&q=Bubalus%20mindorensis&ei=V81sTajSHcKHccO32csF&usg=AFQjCNFZ8lzdAzcNSK4_En1XeSQJnxzMPw& cad=rja • http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Bubalus_mindorensis.html • http://www.arkive.org/tamaraw/bubalus-mindorensis/ • http://www.arkive.org/stripe-faced-fruit-bat/styloctenium-wallacei/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styloctenium • http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/21100/0