The DENR-UNDP-GEF BD Corridor Project in Eastern Mindanao Biodiversity Corridor supported the 27th Philippine Eagle Week Celebration at SM City Ecoland, Davao on June 9-11, 2025. The event was spearheaded by the Philippine Eagle Foundation together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) and the Eastern Mindanao Biodiversity Corridor (EMBC). The participants learned and valued the importance of protecting the Philippine Eagle and the biodiversity corridor.
The celebration, with the theme “Soaring Together: Empowering Communities, Educating Minds, and Saving the Philippine Eagle,” helped to raise awareness through environmental conservation and community action. The event included activities that feature the conservation of our national bird, the forests where it lives, and the connectivity of our landscapes.
Local artists engaged children in an interactive art activity to draw pictures of the Philippine Eagle and teach them about animal and habitat protection. The children also learned about the environment and its current condition through EMBC’s “Tigpanalipod” storybook, a stewardship and conservation connectivity story.
The 27th Philippine Eagle Week celebration revealed something beautiful: that when stakeholders, environmental groups, government and non-government offices, and youth come together, change will happen. The call to action is straightforward: conservation is strongest when we do it together.
The Integrated Approach in the Management of Major Biodiversity Corridors in the Philippines or Biodiversity Corridor Project aims to operationalize integrated management of biodiversity corridors in Eastern Mindanao and Mindoro to generate multiple benefits, including the effective conservation of globally threatened species and high conservation value forests, reduce deforestation and degradation, and enhance local biodiversity-friendly livelihoods. It is being implemented by the DENR in partnership with the United Nations Development Program and funded by the Global Environment Facility.
This story is published under the DENR-UNDP/GEF Project “Integrated Approach in the Management of Major Biodiversity Corridors in the Philippines” or BD Corridor Project, which seeks to operationalize integrated management of biodiversity corridors to generate multiple benefits, including effective conservation of globally threatened species and high conservation value forests, reduce deforestation and degradation, and enhance local biodiversity-friendly livelihoods.
The project is implemented by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme and funded by the Global Environment Facility.
