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Jul 07 ISLA launches Shirt Sale '07

Get them now!Do you want to help raise awareness of the Calayan Rail and its conservation among your friends and family? Then buy a shirt and tell everyone about that bird on your back.

That's how the Calayan Rail Project team hopes to involve more people in conservation awareness and at the same time raise funds for the project. Read more...


Jul 07 Calayan youth to go after hunters

A squad of 17 Calayan youth underwent training at the Calayan High School on 28 July 2007 to go after local residents who may continue to snare the Calayan Rail. However, they will be armed with nothing but questionnaires, fact sheets, posters and t-shirts. Read more...


Jul 07 Six-foot high Calayan Rail sighted

On 26 July 2007 school children, teachers and residents of Calayan Island were astounded to see the biggest Calayan Rail that ever walked the island. The bird had the usual red beak and legs and dark body but it donned a green scarf and a native hat.

It is not a giant anomaly of nature, but a lovable and cuddly mascot named Pedring. Read more...



More news

Jun 07 Rail Project Team member flies "around the world"
Jun 07 Philippine Crocodile pinpointed
May 07 Small Island Reforestation training postponed
May 07 CEC drafts Mission-Vision, 1-year plan
May 07 Farmers want forest around Longog protected
May 07 Locals learn to survey Calayan Rails
Apr 07 Preparations under way for Small Island Reforestation training
Mar 07 Calayan Environmental Council launched
Mar 07 Teacher Training held in Camiguin Island
Feb 07 Calayan Rail Project receives Follow-up Award from BPCP
Feb 07 Biodiversity survey records 44 vertebrate species on Camiguin Island
Feb 07 Crocodile forum a success
Jan 07 Calayan youth participate in environmental education seminar
Sep 06 Environmental education seminars and conservation action plan validation held in 7 barangays
Sep 06 Calayan exhibit visits Cagayan State University and 2nd Philippine Bird Festival
Sep 06 Youth group and high school club help Calayan Rail information campaign
Sep 06 Crocodile project team returns to Dalupiri
Aug 06 Calayan Rail Project participates in Calayan fiesta
Aug 06 Wildlife sanctuary proposed at the Calayan Sangguniang Bayan
Jul 06 Croc Report Now Available
May 06 Calayan develops a conservation action plan
May 06 Teachers receive environmental education training
May 06 CEAE films Calayan Rail documentary
Feb 06 “Calayan Rail” now blazing the seas