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Lord of the Forest: The Fall and Rise of the Great Philippine Eagle

Lord of the Forest: The Fall and Rise of the Great Philippine Eagle

Author: Alain Pascua

Book Cover: Hardcover

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“A Haring Ibon saga of successes and failures, narrated in a language that is dramatic and cinematic, yet grounded in truth... The author painstakingly shows that the Philippine Eagle and the Filipino people share the same fate - that the survival of the eagle is inextricably linked with our own.” - Professor Blas R. Tabaranza Jr.

“This book is more than an invitation to marvel at the Philippine Eagle’s grandeur - it’s a powerful call to action. It is a living emblem of resilience, hope, and the intricate web that connects all life within our forests.” - Dr. Neil Aldrin D. Mallari


“A somewhat religious ode to the Bathala bird... a literary homage that functions as a royalist perspective of our ‘Hari ng Ibon.’ It is an invaluable ethno-ornithological compilation of human relationships with the Filipino ‘bird king’.” - Professor Juan Carlos T. Gonzalez, D.Phil

Before nations had names, before maps were drawn, before forests were divided into parcels and permits, there was a king. High above the mist-draped ridges of the Philippine archipelago, the Great Philippine Eagle - Haring Ibon - still fights for its sky. More than a marvel of biology, and more than a national emblem, it is the living mirror of a people. Once ruling an unbroken green kingdom from Mindanao to Luzon, this apex predator now clings to the last fragments of its realm. Its journey - from ancient myth to Western science, from abundance to the edge of extinction - reveals a stark truth: the fate of our nation and the fate of our forests have always been intertwined. Across hidden battlefields of chainsaws and quiet neglect, amid the last cathedrals of old-growth trees, indigenous guardians, relentless scientists, and local communities wage a fragile war of survival. Every nest saved is a rebellion against forgetting. If the eagle falls, a lineage millions of years old disappears forever. If it rises, so too may the forests, the waters, and the future of the islands it has long guarded.

Lord of the Forest is not merely the story of a bird. It is the story of a country deciding what it will save - and what it is willing to lose.

If we cannot protect the King of our own forests, what kind of kingdom are we truly building?

The forest keeps its receipts. 

This is not a history you simply observe. 

It is one you answer.
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