A “juvenile” Philippine Eagle (Pithecphaga jefferyi) was recently sighted and photographed at the 3,720-hectare Taft Forest Wildlife (Philippine Eagle) Sanctuary in Taft, Eastern Samar, which is in the Samar Island Natural Park (SINP).
A “juvenile” Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) was recently sighted and photographed at the 3,720-hectare Taft Forest Wildlife Sanctuary in Taft, Eastern Samar, which is in the Samar Island Natural Park.
It was a birthday party a child dreams about: a table groaning with a huge chocolate cake alongside pans of freshly-baked spaghetti and chicken lollipops, gallons of ice cream, and other stuff.
![NAME THE YOUNGEST PHILIPPINE EAGLE The Philippine Eagle Foundation breeding facility in Davao City has a new resident, a 5-day-old Philippine eagle, the 25th to be hatched in the facility. The eaglet’s parents are Pag-asa (mother) [right] and Kalinawan (father) [top left]—both born in captivity in Barangay Malagos in Calinan District. PHILIPPINE EAGLE FOUNDATION](http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/files/2013/02/eagles--90x65.jpg "eagles-")
The country’s first Philippine eagle to be hatched and bred in captivity is now a mother.
The tamaraw, along with the Philippine eagle, is considered the country’s flagship species. Every October, the Philippines celebrates Tamaraw Month as part of a national policy to save the rare buffalo, which looks like a small, stocky carabao, except that it has a darker coat and shorter horns that form a “V” on the buffalo’s head.
The rare and endangered Philippine Eagle may soon be flying over the San Roque Dam watershed in San Manuel, Pangasinan, once San Roque Power Corp. (SRPC) succeeds in creating a sanctuary for the national bird. Tom Valdez, SRPC vice president for corporate social responsibility, shares this optimism after a team of volunteers from the [...]
Mining continues to be one of the main threats to the survival of the Philippine Eagle, according to the head of a foundation that has taken upon itself the task of preserving one of the world’s most majestic birds.
Eagle conservationists here are preparing to contest the order of a Bukidnon judge to only fine a lumad farmer P100,000 for killing and cooking a Philippine eagle in 2008.
Mining activities in Surigao del Sur are endangering the habitat of the country’s national bird, the Philippine eagle, according to the head of the Philippine Eagle Foundation.
After two decades of success in its Philippine eagle captive breeding program, the Philippine Eagle Foundation announced Saturday it has successfully bred and hatched another threatened species of bird of prey.
“Pag-asa” was conceived through artificial insemination and was laid in November 1991 by captive Philippine Eagle Diola using mate Junior’s semen.
Hagpa, a female juvenile Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) which had been earlier rescued and released back to the wild, has been found dead in Gingoog City in Misamis Oriental.
The Philippine eagle has become the rallying point of watershed conservation efforts in the Agno River system in northern Luzon.
