KILLED BY INFECTION Philippine Eagle Geothermica or Geo, is shown here 2019, before he was sent on breeding loan to Singapore, complete with a Philippine passport, together with female raptor Sambisig. Geo died of severe lung infection while in Singapore. PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE PHILIPPINE EAGLE FOUNDATION AND DENNIS SALVADOR ILIGAN CITY — The wildlife conservation community mourned the passing of 19-year-old Philippine Eagle 'Geothermica' on Sept. 7 in Singapore, where he was on breeding loan. 'Geo,' as the male eagle was fondly called, together with the female eagle 'Sambisig' or 'Sam,' had been in Singapore's Mandai Wildlife Reserve since 2019, as part of a pioneering international cooperation to save the critically endangered raptor, which is the rarest in the world.

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