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