THE PHILIPPINE Eagle Foundation (PEF) partnered with Liberec Zoo from the Czech Republic to enhance the Philippine Eagle’s ongoing conservation breeding program and continue safeguarding the survival of the critically endangered Philippine Eagle species.
The partnership aims to equip PEF with the necessary tools, training, and knowledge to increase the population of the Philippine Eagle species in captivity and improve the breeding efforts at the Philippine Eagle Center (PEC).
In a press conference, Dr. Jan Hanel, Liberec Zoo Curator for Birds of Prey, shared their motivations to collaborate with PEF to secure the future of the Philippine Eagle as Liberec Zoo’s role is to protect wildlife and care for endangered rare species.
“The work of the Philippine Eagle Foundation is highly important because the bird [Philippine Eagle] is very on the edge of extinction from the Earth,” Hanel said on September 30.
As of September 2024, PEF currently has new equipment of incubators + IC Unit, microscope, AI + cryopreservation, and many others that are vital to the conservation breeding program.
With the new equipment, PEF will be able to do artificial insemination, egg management, semen analysis and storage, and cryopreservation of semen.
PEF also collaborated with the Zoo Wuppertal from Germany for the conservation breed program to tackle topics such as assisted production, cooperative semen collection, microscoping examination, and others.
According to a study published in 2023 by PEF and the Peregrine Fund, the Philippine Eagle population is currently at an estimated 392 pairs.
Liberec Zoo was founded in 1904 and is located in Liberec, Czech Republic. Liberec Zoo has 23 species of Birds of Prey with a long tradition of raptors since 1980.
