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 / 14.6505812; 121.043908
Date openedJuly 5, 1954 (1954-07-05)
LocationDiliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Land area23.85 ha (58.9 acres)
No. of animals1,400 (2018)
Public transit access  5  Lung Center of the Philippines
Websitebmb.gov.ph/ninoy-aquino-parks-and-wildlife-center/
EtymologyBenigno Aquino Jr.
Administered byBiodiversity Management Bureau
Visitors300,000 (in 2013)
Species4,000 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.