Before the pandemic, the Philippine Eagle Foundation rescued only one or two of the raptors each year, but between April 2020 and March 2021, it took in a record-breaking 10
Gathering rattan in their ancestral forest on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao in late March, a group of Indigenous Manobo Simuwawnon heard a commotion.
Over the next three days, while Cotic stayed with the hunters and the bird, Mahumoc and other Indigenous leaders raised 5,000 Philippine pesos from the people in their village. He returned to the forest and bought the bird. With the restless raptor restrained in a rice sack, he rode two hours on his motorbike to Bislig City, where his partner, Reynalyn Gay-od, had already alerted the local environment and natural resources office of the rescue.
Its numbers have been steadily falling for the past fifty years due to human persecution, logging of the nation’s old-growth forests, and the conversion of lowland forests to farms and human settlements. But COVID-19 has added even more pressure. Before the pandemic, only one or two eagles a year were rescued by authorities. Between April 2020 and March 2021, however, the nonprofit, a rescue, rehabilitation, and research foundation in Davao City, rescued 10—a historic high.
Of the 10 eagles rescued by the Philippine Eagle Foundation, two had been caught in traps intended for game. Two had been captured by farmers after the raptors had killed their piglets, chickens, pet dogs, and cats; two had been wounded with improvised hunting rifles; three had been found in the forest, weakened by starvation; and a two-month-old chick had been rescued from a farmer hoping to sell it.
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