In an article in the Business Mirror discussing threats to the rare and endangered Philippine Eagle – including diminishing forests, natural disasters and climate change - Rodel Lasco, coordinator of the World Agroforestry Centre programme in the Philippines, outlines measures for ecosystem adaptation which could assist in recovering species.

One of the largest eagles in the world, the Philippine Eagle is usually found in the Sierra Madre and Cordillera mountain ranges in Luzon, and in forested areas of Mindanao. It is under threat from indiscriminate hunting, logging and expanding agriculture; with just 800 birds left in the wild.

Philippine Presidential Adviser on Environmental Protection, Nereus Acosta, believes that in order to save the Philippine Eagle as well as other threatened species, national efforts to implement conservation measures should be undertaken to protect heritage parks in the country.

Lasco listed measures such as: improved technologies for tree plantation development and reforestation; comprehensive inter-sectoral programs that combine measures to control deforestation and forest degradation with measures to increase agricultural productivity and sustainability; and reducing logging waste, implementing soil conservation practices, and using wood in a more carbon-efficient way.

Read the full story: Forest Conservation saves vanishing eagle