Central Cebu Protected Landscape

{{Short description|Nature reserve in the Philippines}}

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{{Infobox protected area

| name = Central Cebu Protected Landscape

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| photo_caption = The protected landscape area of Central Cebu with the Pit-os campus of Cebu International School in the foreground

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| map_caption = Location in the Philippines

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| location = Cebu, Philippines

| nearest_city = Cebu City

| coordinates = {{coords|10|30|33|N|123|49|34|E|region:PH|display=inline, title}}

| area = {{convert|29062|ha}}

| established = September 15, 1937 (National park)
August 12, 2003 (Protected landscape){{cite web |url=http://lamp.denr.gov.ph/pol03/Others/PROC/PROC%20441.PDF |title=Proclamation No. 441 |publisher=Department of Environment and Natural Resources |access-date=October 20, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020170700/http://lamp.denr.gov.ph/pol03/Others/PROC/PROC%20441.PDF |archive-date=October 20, 2014 }}

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The Central Cebu Protected Landscape (CCPL) is a protected area located in the mountains and drainage basins of central Cebu in the Philippines.

The CCPL covers what used to be known as the Central Cebu National Park, Buhisan Dam, Mananga Watershed Forest Reserve, Kotkot-Lusuran Watershed Forest Reserve, and the Sudlon National Park.{{Cite web

| title = Republic Act No. 9486 - AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE BUHISAN WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE, THE MANANGA WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE, THE SUDLON NATIONAL PARK, THE CENTRAL CEBU NATIONAL PARK AND THE KOTKOT-LUSARAN WATERSHED FOREST RESERVE SITUATED IN THE CITIES OF CEBU

| work = www.chanrobles.com

| access-date = March 26, 2014

| url = http://www.chanrobles.com/republicacts/republicactno9486.html

}} The protected area spans {{convert|29062|ha|acre}} of adjoining forestlands and watersheds located in the middle of the province. It covers parts of the central Cebu cities of Cebu City, Toledo, Talisay, and Danao, and the municipalities of Balamban, Minglanilla, Consolacion, Liloan and Compostela.

The CCPL houses many of Cebu's endemic and indigenous species.{{Cite journal

| volume = 20

| issue = 1

| last = Bagarinao

| first = Ricardo T

| title = Patch richness and shape complexity in Central Cebu Protected Landscape, Cebu Island, Philippines: Implications in Environmental Management

| journal = Asia Life Sciences

| access-date = March 26, 2014

| date = 2011

| url = http://journals.uplb.edu.ph/index.php/ALS/article/view/430

}} The CCPL is also home to several threatened species, such as the Cebu flowerpecker, black shama, the Cebu cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum cebuense), a rare new kind of orchid, the streak-breasted bulbul, the rufous-lored kingfisher, and the Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat among others. It is in this area where the critically endangered Cebu flowerpecker was rediscovered in 1992. The area is also home to the newly opened Kan-irag Nature Park."[http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2007/06/18/arroyo.signs.law.on.watersheds.html Arroyo signs law on watersheds] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225132747/http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/net/2007/06/18/arroyo.signs.law.on.watersheds.html |date=February 25, 2008 }}," Sun.Star, June 18, 2007

In 2011, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR 7) planned to conduct a census and registration of residents of the 22 barangays in the reserve. It also filed a criminal complaint against two individuals for cutting trees in the reserve.{{Cite web

| last = Parco

| first = Bernadette

| title = Department of Environment and Natural Resources conducts census at CCPL

| work = Sun.Star

| access-date = March 26, 2014

| date = October 22, 2011

| url = http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2011/10/22/denr-conducts-census-ccpl-186552?ModPagespeed=noscript

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140326042122/http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2011/10/22/denr-conducts-census-ccpl-186552?ModPagespeed=noscript

| archive-date = March 26, 2014

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}} In 2009, DENR officials had stated that "they are worried that if the forest reserves in Cebu will be destroyed because there are people living there, there will be a water crisis in the province."{{Cite web

| title = Cebu's protected landscape has 106,000 settlers

| work = balita.ph

| access-date = March 26, 2014

| date = June 12, 2009

| url = http://balita.ph/2009/06/12/cebus-protected-landscape-has-106000-settlers/

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