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MANILA (AFP) – Conservationists upraised signal Thursday over the future of the near-extinct Filipino raptor after individual maimed or diseased birds were retrieved from captivity over past months.

The Filipino Eagle Foundation said that since last Dec it had saved quaternary of the one-metre (3.3-foot) birds, which are among the world's largest raptors, suggesting conservation laws had not deterred trapping.

"The eagles move to be harmed and poached," said Tatit Quiblat, utilization trainer with the groundwork which has a imprisoned breeding information for birds to be after returned to the wild.

"We are extremely distressed about these events," he added.

The groundwork said the retrieved birds, every recovered from the large gray island of Mindanao, included a female raptor that was missing digit discover of threesome toes on one foot when it was recovered in December.

The polity in January bimanual over a year-old male to the Mindanao-based groundwork which it had received from villagers.

This month, a year-old raptor with just digit direct feathers remaining on its correct aerofoil was overturned over by local residents patch a someone retrieved from another accord died from a flora infection.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says there are just 180-500 grown Filipino eagles in Mindanao, Luzon, Leyte and Samar islands, with land expiration and poaching the important threats to their survival.

It said the imprisoned breeding information had so farther failed. The prototypal free shuttle electrocuted on a transmission distinction figure months after it was dispatched into the disorderly in 2004.

Another captive-bred raptor was killed by a ticker quaternary months after existence free in 2008.

The species is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.

While the state has laws forbidding the killing, collection, and maltreatment of wildlife as well as activities that threaten grave habitats, the eagles move to be maturity targets, it said.

It also called for a stop to the practice of bounty-hunting Filipino eagles that are then overturned over to the polity or the groundwork with the belief of a reward.

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