Mt. Busa

Kiamba, Sarangani, SOCCSKSARGEN

A remote mountain rising to 2,064 meters in western Sarangani, protecting one of the last significant old-growth dipterocarp forests in the southern Philippines. Identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area, its slopes hold endemic species including the Sarangani bleeding-heart pigeon. Access is genuinely difficult, which has kept the forest intact. The Blaan people whose ancestral domain this is use the mountain's biodiversity as an argument — so far successful — against mining encroachment.

📸 Jsinglador (CC BY-SA 4.0), Firth m (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons

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