Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center

Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center
Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center
	NAPWC
	14°39′02″N 121°02′38″E / 14.6505812°N 121.043908°E
Date opened	5 July 1954
Location	Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Land area	64.58 ha (159.6 acres)

The Ninoy Aquino Parks & Wildlife Center is a 22.7-hectare (56-acre) zoological and botanical garden located in Diliman, Quezon City, the Philippines. It was named after Benigno S. "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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