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VOL.12 ISSUE 132 • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
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SG President’s visit seen to boost eagle conservation By MAYA M. PADILLO
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ore than just opening the doors to its �irst ever foreign head of state visitor in Singapore President Halimah Yacob, the Philippine Eagle Center sees the visit as a possible door-opening to facility development investors. President Yacob arrived on Tuesday (September 10) in Davao City and among the activities she will be attending is the brie�ing and tour at the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) in Malagos on Wednesday (September 11). “I hope though that through this spotlight it will open investments on facility development and more importantly, it’s doing more to protect the species in the wild. This, in turn, means investing on protecting our forests and attending to the welfare of human communities in the upland,” Dennis Salvador, PEF executive director told Edge Davao in a text message. In July this year, two Philippine eagles, a 15-year-old male named Geothermica and a 17-year-old female named Sam-
bisig were welcomed in Singapore as part of a breeding loan agreement to increase the eagles' population. The two eagles are now housed at Jurong Bird Park, which is managed by the Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS). “Eagles in Singapore are doing well,” Salvador said. Salvador said this project has been proposed to the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources (DENR) 10 years ago as part of a larger risk management program for the species’ population. The DENR and WRS signed the loan conservation agreement in May this year. Geothermica and Sambisig are both captive-bred, which means they are more accustomed to human
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NOT AFFECTED BY ASF. A porter unloads a pig from a vehicle to the pigpen at Agdao Public Market's livestock area in Brgy. Agdao, Davao City on Tuesday. The supply and demand for pork and live swine in Davao City are still stable even after the news broke out on Monday that African Swine Fever have caused the death of dozens of pigs in Rizal and Bulacan. Lean Daval Jr
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