The Mindoro rain forests cover the Philippine island of Mindoro, which lies between Luzon and the Palawan archipelago, together with smaller satellite islands centered on Lubang to the northwest and Semirara to the southeast, all within the Indomalayan realm. The natural cover is mostly lowland evergreen rainforest and lower montane forest, with patches of limestone forest and coastal mangroves, and the canopy is dominated by the dipterocarp family, including genera such as Shorea, Dipterocarpus, and Parashorea. The climate is a tropical monsoon regime (Koppen Am) with warm, even temperatures year-round and a pronounced dry season, and tropical cyclones are common. The ecoregion's flagship endemic is the critically endangered tamaraw, or Mindoro dwarf buffalo, the national animal of the Philippines, but heavy commercial logging has reduced the original forest to only small remaining patches. Native trees here include Pterocarpus indicus, a broad-canopied legume widely grown elsewhere as an ornamental shade tree.
Marker placed inside the RESOLVE 2017 polygon at 13.0°N, 121.1°E.
Climate snapshot for this ecoregion
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Current zone range (2011–2040)
13a-13b
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CHELSA-derived typical winter month at this ecoregion's bbox grid.
Projected (2041–2070)
13a-13b
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Where the CHELSA models say the typical winter month is heading.
Average warming this ecoregion is on track for: +2.7°F by mid-century. SSP3-7.0 (current trajectory) · CHELSA v2.1 bio06 sampled across 10 of 10 points within this ecoregion's bounding box.
At a glance
Dominant biome
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Realm
Indomalayan
Approximate area
3,906 sq mi
Conservation tier
Nature Could Reach Half Protected (Dinerstein NNH 2)
About the tropical & subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome
Warm, wet, highly productive forests — including tropical rainforests — with closed canopies, near year-round growing seasons, and the richest terrestrial biodiversity on Earth. Low seasonality and high rainfall sustain dense, layered vegetation from canopy to forest floor.
Catalog plants suited to this ecoregion
No catalog plants intersect this ecoregion's zone range. As the catalog grows to cover this region's climate band, suggestions will surface here.
Collections for this ecoregion
No curated collection's plants all fit this ecoregion's zone range. We surface a collection only when every member would grow here — partial fits get filtered out rather than mislead. As the catalog and the curated set both grow, this section will fill in.
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