Vets fail to save PH Eagle found with bullet wound in Davao de Oro

DAVAO CITY — Barely two weeks after the success of reintroducing a pair of the national bird into the forests of Leyte, conservationists were greeted with the devastating news of the death of a male Philippine eagle (Pitechopaga jefferyi) from a bullet wound in Compostela, Davao de Oro. “We mourn the loss of an immature