The mission to save the Philippine eagle, one of the rarest eagles in the world, has not stopped despite the COVID-19 pandemic. | JhessetEnanoINQ
Prepandemic engagements during eagle releases were focused only on concerned local government officials and indigenous communities living near or in the forest that the eagle considers its home, said PEF executive director Dennis Salvador.
“With most people at home due to the lockdown, we saw that it was a good opportunity to allow people to take part and see firsthand the work that goes into releasing rescued eagles,” said Jayson Ibañez, the foundation’s director for research and conservation. Digital tools are now playing central roles in actual conservation work given the restrictions on the usual protocols in bringing rescued birds to the Philippine Eagle Center in Davao City.
With strict travel bans across the country, Ibañez and his team, along with their partners from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture, began remotely rehabilitating Siocon back to health.In over a month, online checkups were done through photos and videos of Siocon that were exchanged by Ibañez’s team and the DENR regional office in the Zamboanga Peninsula, where the eagle stayed.
But their communities have also been ravaged by the coronavirus and the economic slump, leaving many cut off from vital information on the health outbreak as well as most basic goods and government services. Thus, with laptops, LCD projectors and fervent hope for strong Wi-Fi signals, the PEF and its partners have begun giving online seminars and training in financial literacy and managing small enterprises to indigenous tribes and also migrants in the uplands to help them cope with the changes driven by the public health crisis.
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