EAGLE FLIES FREE. The Philippine Eagle "Sarangani" is finally back home at Mt. Busa, a local conservation area in Barangay Upo, Maitum, Sarangani, Monday (June 13, 2022). The bird was freed after 18 months of recuperating at the Philippine Eagle Center in Davao City. (Photo courtesy Maitum LGU) GENERAL SANTOS CITY - The Philippine eagle named "Sarangani" was returned to the wild after its release in the hinterlands of Maitum, Sarangani province, Monday. "Sarangani survived an injury inflicted on its wing by illegal hunters for more than a year in the forests of the province," Abdul Cariga, head of the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) of Kiamba town, said in an interview. Cariga witnessed the release of Sarangani to its natural habitat in the mountain after 18 months of recovery at the Philippine Eagle Center in Davao City. Sarangani, a male Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi), was turned over to the Philippine Eagle Foundatio
DAVAO CITY – A male Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) will be released back into its home in Sarangani on Monday, June 13, more than a year after it was rescued in Barangay Ticulab, Maitum, Sarangani, Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) Development Program Manager Andi Baldonado said. In an in
(PHIVOLCS) A 5.1-magnitude earthquake shook parts of southern Mindanao at around 10:25 p.m., Friday, Feb. 11, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). The epicenter of the earthquake was traced 49 kilometers (km) northwest of Kiamba, Sarangani at a shallow depth of 2
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