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MANILA — Calls for greater protection of threatened wildlife in the Philippines have intensified following the fatal shooting of a critically endangered Philippine eagle, the national bird ...
The Bagobo Tagabawa people, who live at the foot of Mount Apo in the Philippines, tell the story of a banog, or great eagle, that snatched a man and carried him away to its aerie. The banog had an ...
Descendants of Josefa Llanes Escoda, Vicente Lim, and Jose Abad Santos urged the BSP to keep the martyrs’ portraits and place the Philippine eagle – or other plants and animals the central ...
In mid-2021, the portraits of World War II heroes José Abad Santos, Vicente Lim, and Josefa Llanes Escoda on the P1,000 bill were removed and replaced by the Philippine eagle. The change was ...
The Philippine eagle has been declared threatened with extinction for nearly three decades, but little is definitely known about its range and its wild population. Using satellite images ...
Once inhabiting every island in the Philippines, the Philippine eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) – the world’s longest eagle – now occupies a fraction of its former range and is listed as ...
For centuries, the Philippine eagle and hawk eagle have shared this remote rainforest with the Dumagat, an Indigenous people who call the slopes of the Sierra Madre mountains in the northern ...
MANILA, Philippines — Riley, the Philippine eagle whose unassisted hatching brought hope to conservation efforts earlier this year, has died. "It is with deep sadness that we announce the ...
With its size and majestic appearance, the Philippine Eagle embodies strength in the animal kingdom, but with its population declining, protecting this predatory bird is more crucial than ever.