In 2018, DAF initiated ecological studies on the habitats where the tamaraw can be found in MINBP. Fernando is now expending the work accomplished by his predecessor in order to guide the Park in undertaking shift of habitat management; main measure being the phase out of grassland burning prior to tamaraw counts.
On that matter, one of the most relevant activities to understand the habitat dynamic over time is to repeat protocols and create time series of the different data collected. The DAF field research team is thence repeating most of the vegetation quadrats that they implemented within the core zone of the monitoring at time of Alvaro.