The online news portal of TV5 For the first time, two of the
country's rarest and most endangered mammals have been
photographed in their natural habitat in Negros Island. British
scientists, reporting on the results of a two-week expedition to
the North Negros National Park, had set up camera traps to take
pictures of the elusive Visayan Warty Pig and Spotted Deer.
According to a report by The Telegraph, Dr. Neil D'Cruze and his
team "trekked elevations over 1,500 meters to set up the traps"
- cameras rigged to snap pictures once creatures step into view.
Expedition leader James Sawyer broke his foot on the "very
tough" terrain, telling BBC Nature, "the Philippine rainforest
is close, dense, and everything is very spiky. You get scratched
to pieces and boots get destroyed." The team from the UK-based
World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) hoped to
highlight the area as a "biodiversity hotspot" in order to
intensify conservation efforts. Despite the forest being a
protected area, local officials s