CALAUIT WILDLIFE PARK
  Most of Palawan's forests have been declared national parks or wilderness areas. The game preserve and wildlife sanctuary in Calauit Island off Palawan's northwestern coast is a sight to behold with its numerous African animals who roam the island freely. The island, less than an hour boat ride from Club Paradise offers a safari of exotic wildlife, straight out of Africa! Zebra, giraffe, eland, impala, topi, and gazelles graze in the grasslands. These animals from Kenya were given a permanent home in 1977 when the Philippines responded to an appeal by the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to save endangered African animals. Today, they thrive in their new Pacific home.
  The forests, grasslands and mangrove swamps of this conservation area are also the habitat of some of the country's rarest and most endangered species, such as the Calamian deer, Palawan bearcat, Philippine mouse deer, tarsier, Palawan pheasant peacock, scaly anteater, pawikan turtles and monitor lizard.
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