From a Philippine Conflict Hotspot, a New Insect-eating Plant Emerges

Scientists have discovered a new insect-eating pitcher plant, Nepenthes cabanae, in the Philippines’ southern Mindanao region. Thriving in a small area within a known conflict zone, the pitcher plant has already been declared critically endangered.

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Published on 22/06/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Environment, Stories
Tags: Mindanao, mountains, mountains, tribal

Science and Spirituality Go Hand-In-Hand Among Mountain Tribes

Based on her 30 years of study on indigenous health and practices of the Igorots, a professor from the University of the Philippines Baguio is invoking the power of spiritual healing over diseases covered by the indigenous and spiritual practices in the Cordillera region.

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Published on 15/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Culture, Documentary
Tags: mountains, science, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Yakan; Mountain Dwellers.

Mindanao, the Philippines' southernmost island, is a virtual and cultural melting pot, although Mindanao carries many influences and flavours from other lands, many indigenous tribes inhabit the vast regions of Mindanao.

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Published on 06/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Mindanao, Yakan, mountains, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Maguindanaons, People of the Flood Plains.

The name means people of the flood plains or derived from the two word maginged and danaw which means people of the marshy. In the early 15th century, Sharif Muhammad Kabungsuan, an Arab-Malay preacher from the royal house of Malacca, introduced the Islamic religion, customs and the Sultanate system of governance.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Mindanao, people, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Higaonon, People of the Living Mountains

The indigenous tribes of the Higaonon share a common root language, history and culture, they can be found in the northern and central regions of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Higaonon, Mindanao, people, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Bagobo, the New People.

Scattered throughout the Southern Philippine Archipelago slowly disappearing tribes untouched by neither time nor colonization still exist in present time. Along the desolate eastern coast of the Davao Gulf, centuries ago, new migrants mixed with the native population, forming a new community that was given the name Bagobo.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Bagobo, Mindanao, people, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Manobo, River People of Cotabato.

Manobo, the name may came from Mansuba from man (person or people) and suba (river), meaning river people. The first Manobo settlers lived in northern Mindanao, at present Manobo tribes can be found at the hillsides and river valleys of the northeastern part of Cotabato.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Cotabato, Manobo, Mindanao, people, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, Badjao, the Sea Gypsies.

Badjao or Bajau means man of the seas, this tribal group is known as the Sea Gypsies because they move with the wind and the tide on their small houseboats called vintas, they can be found in many coastal settlements and inhabit the waters and shores of the Sulu archipelago.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Badjao, Mindanao, Sea Gypsies, tribal

The Last Tribes of Mindanao, the Tausug, People of the Current.

Tausug or Suluk is the name of an Islamized tribal group in the Sulu archipelago, and is taken from the words taumeaning man and sug meaning current. Traditionally the Tausug are sailors, pearl divers and traders, their ancestral homelands in the Sulu Archipelago have vigorous tidal currents that flow from the Sulu and China Seas to the Celebes Sea. This translates literally into the name people of the current.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
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Tags: Mindanao, Tausug, people, tribal

The T'boli Tribe of South Cotabato.

More than 40 different ethnic groups can be found in the Philippines. There are 18 tribal groups on the island of Mindanao. The most well known is the T'boli Tribe, that lives in the province of South Cotabato, around lake Sebu. Since the arrival of settlers originating from the other islands of the Philippines, they gradually moved to the mountain slopes to live in scattered settlements in the Higlands.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Cotabato, South, Tboli, tribal

The Maranao Tribe from Lake Lanao

Together with the Illanun and Maguindanao, the Maranao are one of three indigenous Muslim groups native to the island of Mindanao in the southwestern part of the Philippines, this tribal group share in a generalized Southeast Asian culture but has its own cultural identity.

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Published on 05/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Maranao, tribal

Beyond the Beach: the Untold Story of Boracay's Ati Tribe

Year after year, travel magazines call Boracay Island the best beach destination in the world. Found off the coast of Caticlan, Aklan in the Visayas, the island became famous for its fine, powdery white sand. The island’s tourism industry is worth billions of pesos, and this value continues to grow with each year.

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Stories
Tags: Ati, Boracay, tribal

Ati – the Original Tribal People of Panay

he island of Boracay in central Philippines is home to the Ati people, whose ancestors were believed to have arrived through a land bridge from Borneo thousands of years ago and were thus the first inhabitants of the country. Most of the Ati can be found in Aklan, Capiz, Antique, Iloilo, and Negros. They are part of the Negrito group and are genetically related to other Negritos, such as the Mamanwa of Mindanao, Ayta of Luzon, and the Batak of Palawan.

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Ati, Panay, people, tribal

Buhid

The Buhids are known as pot makers. Other Mangyan tribes, like the Alangan and Hanunuo, used to buy their cooking pots from the Buhids. The word Buhid literally means "mountain dwellers" [Postma, 1967]. Buhid women wear

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Communities, Culture, Documentary
Tags: Buhid, Mangyan, tribal

Meet the Agta, A Tribe where A Quarter of Men Have Been Attacked by Giant Snakes

He was living in the Philippine rainforest with a group of hunter-gatherers called the Agta. On the walk to the outhouse behind his hut, he stumbled across a reticulated python curled up on the trail. “The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I shouted for help,” he recalls. At his cries, six to seven Agta jumped up from the surrounding bushes… and started laughing. Their new American neighbour had fallen for the old previously-killed-python-on-the-pa

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Published on 02/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Documentary, Stories
Tags: Agta, tribal