PANGARAP, AboitizPower’s adopted female Philippine Eagle, turned 17 years old last February 23. Photo courtesy of Philippine Eagle Foundation
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Pangarap, AboitizPower’s adopted female Philippine Eagle, turned 17 years old last February 23.

Captive-bred through natural pairing, Pangarap is one of the 35 Philippine Eagles under the care of the Philippine Eagle Foundation’s conservation breeding program.

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AboitizPower has been supporting the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) since 2010 by providing funds for Pangarap’s food, veterinary care, and shelter maintenance.

“With the Philippine eagle as our flagship for conservation, taking direct actions to protect the species is integral in conserving our natural resources. With AboitizPower’s continued support to our captive breeding program, we are working doubly hard in our efforts to conserve the species,” said PEF executive director Dennis Salvador.

In the goal to augment the dwindling population of the species, the PEF has been working on Pangarap to produce its first offspring through cooperative artificial insemination (CAI). “Now that Pangarap has fully bonded with her keeper, we are hoping that she will finally lay a fertile egg in the next breeding season”, said Philippine Eagle Center Curator, Anna Mae Sumaya.

Pangarap is sheltered at the Philippine Eagle Center in Malagos, Baguio District in Davao City.

Pangarap is not the first wildlife conservation project of AboitizPower.

AboitizPower, through its subsidiary Hedcor, supported the recovery and upkeep of Mabikker, an adult Pinkser’s hawk-eagle that was released to the wild within the 64,053-hectare Mt. Apo Natural Park last October 2015. The hawk-eagle, considered an endangered species, was rescued September 2015.

Therma Marine, another AboitizPower subsidiary, together with local fishermen, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), local government unit of Brgy. San Roque, Maco and D’ Bone Collector Museum, rescued and released an injured pygmy sperm whale near the Therma Marine power barge in Maco town Compostella Valley last May 24, 2014.

The Aboitiz Cleanergy Park is an Aboitiz BetterWorld initiative that models an urban-based habitat conservation and biodiversity management. Developed in partnership with Davao Light, the sprawling 8-hectare outdoor biodiversity park located in Punta Dumalag in Davao City provides nesting sanctuary to the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle.

A-Park is the Aboitiz Group’s contribution to reforestation and a healthy ecosystem. Every year since 2010, groupwide simultaneous tree planting activities have been conducted on top of the tree-planting activities being done by the various business units with the goal of planting 3 million trees by 2015. The target was hit a year ahead and as of December 2015 a total of 3.8 million trees have been planted all across the country. (pr)

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