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Bohol lost almost one-third of the estimated tarsier population in the past ten years, according to a research by experts that include the National Geographic Society.

Director Dioscoro Melana of the Protected Area Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENBR) in Central Visayas said the move of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) against the capture of tarsiers from the wilds and their display for commercial use is on right track.

Quoting the expert studies in his powerpoint presentation during a committee hearing at the Capitol, Provincial Board Member Alfonso Damalerio II said tarsiers were estimated to number 1,000 in 1991.

A decade later or in 2001, the population of Bohol’s eco-tourism icon believed to be already 45 million in existence dwindled to 700 more or less.

The trend can render the tarsiers extinct in the next 20 years, Damalerio expressed.
Melana, himself present in the SP environment committee hearing headed by Damalerio, assured to support the move banning the capture of tarsiers and their commercial display by enterprising tourism outlets, primarily those in Loboc.

The committee gathered inputs vital to the enactment of a provincial ordinance towards this end.
The proposed ordinance is enough bases to reject all future applications to domesticate tarsiers purposely for leisure and fees from viewers who are mostly tourists and visitors.

The present system does not require a clearance from the provincial environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO), whose head Nestor Canda also appeared to Damalerio’s committee, when applying for DENR Regional Office permit for the captive breeding of tarsier.

The intent of the permit is good, but the blatant display of the primate for commercial viewing mocks the very purpose of the license from the DENR, according to other eco-tourism stakeholders attending the committee hearing.

Even some existing laws and special issuances was blamed for the permitted capture and domestication of tarsiers. - source: The Bohol Chronicle

di ba naay tarsier sanctuary sa corella? daghan pa jud na didto.

I don't  beleive that hundreds of tarsiers are gone. Didto sa tarseir foundation sa Corella, daghan na ang  migawas sa santuary area. Niadtong Abril nakadakop ko didto sa Canangca-an , kasikbit nga barangay sa tarseir sanctuary. According to residents, many tarseirs escaped from the foundation .

Well ... if the tarsiers eventually become extinct ... then all Bohol could offer in its tourism promotions will just "PICTURES" ... na lang ...

Kon dili magtinabangay to protect and keep these creatures alive ... eh di, tanan mawad-an ... in one way or the other ... di ba?

It is just naive for local government officials to allow entrepreneurs to operate tarsier viewing establishments so that tourists can see these rare and endangered nucturnal animals even at day time.

One permit that DENR granted was for a tarsier breeding in captivity program, and mind you, not for endangering the tarsier's lives by making them available for day time tourists.

One tarsier stop even allows tourists to feed the tarsiers by putting in crickets on midribs and rubbing these insects on the nose of the sleeping marsupials.

This is not counting a tarsier stop that still allows tourists to handle the poor creatures.

Nobody really could tell how many tarsiers have died in these establishments. The operators say none. But by the abuse the tarsiers get, i wont be surprised if the turn-over is a dead tarsier a day.

And because Loboc saw that the tarsier establishments are racking in donations, they effected the tarsier toll fee so at least the town can get it all.

Accordingly, it was done in the guise of earning money so the LGU can put up tarsier protection funds.

In an area where the same LGU put in those gigantic lights to create a magical night cruise which has undeniably disturbed the tarsier feeding, the LGU still have the gall to tell that the P50 toll fee goes to tarsier protection?

Oh, come on, you can do better than that!

nigamay ang mga tarsiers kay nanglakaw ang uban.

Kinahanglan nga ila gjod nga atimanon ning atong Bohol tourist attraction. These God's creation makes our own Bohol more perfect.

Kon gidakop ang ubang mga tarsiers diha sa Corella, naa ra na nagtuyok-tuyok sa Bohol kay dili pan makagawas. Dili pwede makasaka sa barko o sa airplane kay  may inspection man. Therefore , dili makagawas sa Bohol.

Adunay bay smuggling sa mga tarsier para dalhon sa ubang probinsya?

Quote from: fdaray on January 23, 2009, 05:03:48 PM
Kon gidakop ang ubang mga tarsiers diha sa Corella, naa ra na nagtuyok-tuyok sa Bohol kay dili pan makagawas. Dili pwede makasaka sa barko o sa airplane kay  may inspection man. Therefore , dili makagawas sa Bohol.

Adunay bay smuggling sa mga tarsier para dalhon sa ubang probinsya?

frdaray,
Pastilan ug pang kawaton nang atong mga  "precious tarsiers" diha aron ilang paliwatan aron ilang ipasundayag sa mga turista. Possible ning mahitabo. Mao lagi nga kinahanglan nga kinsa tong may katungdanan ana ila gjod nga atimanon, di ba?

gipangkaon na pod tingali ang uban. lami man kono nig karne, tinood ba?

Bantog ra kay pati akong bana, nahimong tarsier, gamay naman di ay ni sila.

Mao nay highbred  tarsier, the result of modern technology.

unsa na may dagway ana, fdaray?

Quote from: glacier_71 on January 24, 2009, 04:06:35 AM
gipangkaon na pod tingali ang uban. lami man kono nig karne, tinood ba?

saba ka diha glacier.    kagamay ra tawon ug unod, basin ang mata nila maoy "delicate"  Oh...poor tarsiers!

Mao ni ang gi ingon ni Benelynn nga "We are killing the hen that laid the golden egg".

Quote from: Bambi on January 25, 2009, 03:21:10 AM
saba ka diha glacier.    kagamay ra tawon ug unod, basin ang mata nila maoy "delicate"  Oh...poor tarsiers!

hahaha, mao ba. kita man ko nga gagmay ra ni. pero, i know some of them are being hunted for that reason. kung ang baki sa basak makaon, mas lami pa siguro ang karne aning tarsier kay hinlo man nig mga kan-onon

i wouldn't bet on it. Documented a tarsier that ate cockroaches/ eeoooowwww

It does not mean nga tungod kay nanaghan na ang mga tarsiers, magpasagad na lang ta ug pag abuso na usab kanila. For 45 million years, they have been existing in this reason, let us not be the reason for their extinction... 

Quote from: apothecary on January 30, 2009, 01:13:26 PM
i wouldn't bet on it. Documented a tarsier that ate cockroaches/ eeoooowwww

well, at least they control the population of cockroaches.. cockroaches are below tarsiers in the food chain/web...

Ngano nga dili man ipagawas ang mga tarseir sa Bohol sa ubang lalawigan aron
modaghan sad didto.?

Atong tugotan nga ipabred sa ubang lugar sa Pilipinas aron modaghan. Sigurado
ko nga modaghan kay dili man pareho sa onggoy nga lami kaonon ang karne.
Dili man makaon ang tarseir. Pareha ra gud sa mga baka, kanding ug mga manok
nga tugotan bisag kinsa ang mobuhi bisan asang lugar sa Pilipinas.

Wala may mamusil ug tarseir aron kaonon kay pait man ang karne.Kinsa may nakatilaw
ug karneng tarseir?  Kon duna may manakok ila gyud na nga buhion , for pet.

nganong panghuntingon man ning mga tarsier? unsa may ilang rason ani, gawas nga ipang-hanyag sa mga torista? i know, intrusion sa ilang habitat is one of the factors of their imminent demise.

Wala na may nanghanting karon sa tarseir. Dunay manguha diha duol sa tarseir foundation aron himoong pet. Bawal ba diay na ?

One thing rare about the tarsius syrichta is that tehy are endemic to the greater mindanao faunal region.

The region is characteristic of the island provinces of BOhol, Samar Leyte and mainland Mindanao to Borneo.

The land bridges which theoritically connected the country to Indonsesia may have something to do with this. 

Apart from that, they are extremely territorial, one that even forces parent tarsiers to kill their young should they find the babies a threat and competition for food in their appointed territories.

A study has shown that a femal tarsier, when "placed" too far away from her favorite territory simply died, possibly by holding its breath. Suicidal is one characteristic of these marsupials.

According to research, stress, dislocation and pysical trauma can immediately cause a tarsier death.

Another big cause is the intrusion of human activity into their ranges have driven them farther to the thicker forests where insects may not be that numerous as in secondary growth forests, and thus depriving the tarsier of .07 pounds of insect food per night hunt.

Cats. Yes, feral cats often hunt for tarsier which present itself as easy prey when they sleep during the day, them being nucturnal animals and sleep at the heights from a foot to to heights of easy reach by our feline pets.

Would sending tarsiers to regions like shared by greater Mindanao work? Perhaps. But owing to the fact that these animals which used to inhabit the places were forced to extinction or near it, the may may spring some doubts. However, we believe there is not harm in trying, especially when there is available fund to initiate research on this suggestion.