Tamaraw

How it was counted

The estimate is read across the point counts run alongside DENR's annual count in the years to 2025, and it covers a count zone in Mounts Iglit-Baco Natural Park, not the whole species. DENR's annual count, by its Tamaraw Conservation Program Office, is a different kind of number (a head count of the animals seen from many vantage points at the same time) and came to 425 in the park in April 2026.

This is a survey estimate given as a range, about 200 to 220 animals in a count zone in Mounts Iglit-Baco Natural Park, and not a count of every animal.

What moves it

Habitat loss and illegal hunting have left the tamaraw in a few small populations.

• illegal hunting and habitat loss, which have left it in a few small populations. Source: IUCN SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group.

Who is helping

DENR's Tamaraw Conservation Program Office, with the Protected Area Management Office of Mounts Iglit-Baco Natural Park, runs the annual count and protects the tamaraw in Mindoro.

The next count

The count is annual; no date for the next count is known as of 12 November 2026.

Sources

• D'Aboville Foundation and Demo Farm Inc., with a scientific partner from France, in BULLetin issue 9 (May 2026), the newsletter of the IUCN SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group Last checked 12 November 2026.
• DENR-MIMAROPA, Tamaraw Conservation Program Office (release reprinted by the Province of Oriental Mindoro) Last checked 12 November 2026.
• IUCN SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist GroupTamaraw Last checked 12 November 2026.

What changed

• 12 November 2026 Added to Live Species, on the wall (1,000 or fewer): 200 to 220 (Estimate, with range, 2025).
• 13 November 2026 A line of the record's wording changed.

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