Panay monitor

Appearance

This is a large monitor lizard with a length of 1.75 m (5.7 ft), a snout-vent length of 70 cm (28 in) and a mass of 8 kg (18 lb).

Range and habitat

The Panay monitor occurs only on Panay, inhabiting remnant forests in the northwestern and western mountain ranges at altitudes of 200–1000 m. It is highly arboreal and dependent on primary forest ecosystems. The Panay monitor is an endangered monitor lizard native to Panay Island in the Philippines.

There are ongoing conservation efforts being carried out on the island. Agricultural land conversion and illegal logging on Panay Island, particularly in its endangered lowland forest, pose imminent risks to the species.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

In crisis

The species is classified as endangered by the IUCN. The species classification as Endangered is attributed to its habitat's extent of occurrence falling below 1,000 km^2 and an estimated occupancy area under 200 km^2, alongside a severely fragmented population. Urgent conservation measures are imperative to avert further depletion and potential extinction of this species.

The Panay monitor is critically threatened by habitat loss and degradation. The species faces a severe threat from rapid agricultural land conversion, primarily through slash-and-burn practices.

Panay monitor is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Panay monitor, Wikidata item Q1336394. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.