MALAYBALAYCITY  (MindaNews/04 April) --  At least 182 hectares of  forest plantation in this city, and in Impasug-ong, Manolo Fortich and Malitbog towns  were burned between December 7 and March 18,  the Central Mindanao Newswatch, a local weekly here, reported.

Speaking last Friday at the start of a conference on climate change at the University of the Philippines-Diliman, Dr. Blas Tabaranza said the definition will allow massive conversion of natural forests into plantations without changing or losing forest cover.

Hineleban, a male eagle bred at the Philippine Eagle Center (PEC), has been missing since late November.  An intensive and protracted search resulted in the recovery of the carcass of a male Philippine Eagle in Barangay Lupiagan in Bukidnon on January 15.  The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) has reason to believe that the carcass is that of Hineleban and that the bird was a victim of foul play.

Reynaldo H. Legaste, South Cotabato chief agriculture officer, issued the warning as he announced the postponement of cloud seeding operations scheduled last week owing to unfavorable conditions.

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/20 February) – The El Niño phenomenon has taken its toll in Bukidnon, not necessarily drying its farms, but reducing the harvest of thousands of farmers so far.

Based on figures released  February 18 by the Provincial Agriculture Office,  5,893 or nearly 10 per cent of Bukidnon's estimated 60,000 farmers, most of them corn farmers, have experienced reduced harvest in the last cropping.