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Mount Busa
Philippines · Elevation not verified
Reviewed routes
No reviewed route is included. Missing route information does not establish safe or legal access.
About this mountain
Philippines
Numeric elevation and coordinates are omitted because the cited study and Atlas differ slightly in their metrics.
Mount Busa
Bulul Tembob
Soccsksargen
Sources and scope
Identity name and geographic binding only; this guide omits numeric coordinates and elevation because published metrics differ from the Atlas.
Reported by the cited study as the name used among local Tboli; no broader language-standardization claim.
- Richness and Distribution of Orchids (Orchidaceae) in the Forests of Mount Busa, Sarangani, Southern Mindanao, Philippines — Philippine Journal of Science, Department of Science and Technology · checked 2026-11-03
- Amphibians and Reptiles of Mount Busa, Sarangani Province: a Glimpse of the Herpetological Community of Southern Mindanao, Philippines — Philippine Journal of Science, Department of Science and Technology · checked 2026-11-03
Nature & wildlife
surveyed forest sites, 2018-2020
Southern-slope surveys documented high orchid and herpetofaunal diversity, including many Philippine endemics; these survey records are not visitor encounter promises.
Sources and scope
Species tallies apply to the surveyed southern-slope forest sites and must not be generalized to every point on the mountain or used as visitor encounter promises.
- Richness and Distribution of Orchids (Orchidaceae) in the Forests of Mount Busa, Sarangani, Southern Mindanao, Philippines — Philippine Journal of Science, Department of Science and Technology · checked 2026-11-03
- Amphibians and Reptiles of Mount Busa, Sarangani Province: a Glimpse of the Herpetological Community of Southern Mindanao, Philippines — Philippine Journal of Science, Department of Science and Technology · checked 2026-11-03
Culture & local context
name attribution only
The cited study reports Bulul Tembob as a name used among local Tboli.
Sources and scope
Reported by the cited study as the name used among local Tboli; no broader language-standardization claim.
- Richness and Distribution of Orchids (Orchidaceae) in the Forests of Mount Busa, Sarangani, Southern Mindanao, Philippines — Philippine Journal of Science, Department of Science and Technology · checked 2026-11-03
Conservation
Southern slope declared a local conservation area under Sarangani Resolution 2020-10-042.
A national protected-landscape bill is pending; no enacted national status is asserted.
Sources and scope
Southern slope local designation only; not a claim that the whole mountain range is currently a nationally proclaimed protected landscape.
Legislative proposal only; not evidence that a national protected landscape designation has taken effect.
- Richness and Distribution of Orchids (Orchidaceae) in the Forests of Mount Busa, Sarangani, Southern Mindanao, Philippines — Philippine Journal of Science, Department of Science and Technology · checked 2026-11-03
- HB05063: Establishing the Mt. Busa Protected Landscape in the Province of Sarangani — House of Representatives of the Philippines · checked 2026-11-03