Dear Geoff
Your worry about what's happening in The Philippines is well-grounded. A six-day visit of
Subic Bay validates your worries. While the former naval half of Subic Bay retains some
former rainforest glory of biodiversity avifauna speaking, the opposite side of
hilly areas were laid bare with deforestation. Our daily count of raptors was simply disappointing on the naval side.
Anyhow, I still hope your spring statistics is still incomplete and trend is reversing in coming years.
S L Tai