Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center

Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center
Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center
	Entrance to the park
	14°39′02″N 121°02′38″E / 14.6505812°N 121.043908°E
Date opened	July 5, 1954
Location	Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Land area	23.85 ha (58.9 acres)
No. of animals	1,400 (2018)
Public transit access	5 Lung Center of the Philippines
Website	bmb.gov.ph/napwc/
Etymology	Benigno Aquino Jr.
Administered by	Biodiversity Management Bureau
Visitors	300,000 (in 2013)
Species	4,000 trees

The Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center is a 23.85-hectare (58.9-acre) zoological and botanical garden located in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. It was named after Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. The Ninoy Aquino Parks & Wildlife Center has a lagoon, an aquarium, a playground, botanical garden and a Wildlife Rescue Center, which the Department of Environment and Natural Resources uses as a temporary shelter where confiscated, retrieved, donated, sick, abandoned, and injured wild animals are placed to be taken care of. The park houses several indigenous plants and animals such as crab-eating macaques, water monitors, Philippine deer, binturongs, Palawan bearded pigs and several varieties of birds.^[1]

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^ Catibog-Sinha, Corazon (2015). "The Role of Nature-Based Tourism in the Green Economy". Tourism in the Green Economy. By Reddy, Maharaj Vijay; Wilkes, Keith. Routledge. p. illustrated. ISBN 978-1134626526. Retrieved May 26, 2019.