Mabuhay! (CAWS) Cebu Animal Welfare Society, Inc is a newly organized group of anonymous animal lovers that I founded. Our aim is to protect and promote the welfare of our endemic wild animals especially the one found in the island of Cebu where our group is based.  Our ongoing project, Cebu Zoo's Adopt an Animal program, is to help the crisis stricken captive animals of Cebu Zoo. The funding received from the government is not enough to supply them with the right food, medicine and maintenance expenses to restore its enclosures in good condition. A total rehabilitation is needed to give them a close to natural habitat sorroundings.

Listed here are some of Cebu Zoo's Captive Animals that you can adopt to protect.

Another project, together with (PWCF) Philippine Wetland and Wildlife Conservation Foundation, Inc., is to put up the Cebu Endemic Birds Aviary inside the Cebu Zoo. This will initially contain the genuine Cebuano bird, Black Shama or locally known as Siloy. The aviary will serve as the main attraction of Cebu Zoo for exhibition and study.

Also listed here are the Cebu Endemic Birds for your reference.

In this regard, I am appealing for your support to finance our projects by granting us donations and funding. Aside from saving these innocent animals from starving and extinction, you are also helping Cebu Zoological Garden become one of the most interesting tourist destinations in the Philippines.

Hoping for your immediate support and corroboration.

SOL EUGENIO
Founder/Chairman

For your donations and further information, please visit or call:

CEBU ZOOLOGICAL & BOTANICAL GARDENS (CEBU ZOO)
Capitol Hills, Cebu City, Philippines
Tel: (063)-(32)-255-0849

Endangered Species

BLACK SHAMA (Copsychus cebuensis)

Black Shama, locally called Siloy, is an eight-inch songbird that was thought to be extinct like most of the other species and sub-species that are endemic to Cebu only. Siloy is a marvelous songbird that sings regularly at dawn or at dusk but is shy and stays close to the ground concealed in dense thickets. This songbird used to live in natural forests in Cebu, it managed to survive by adapting to a hostile environment, living in bamboo thickets and second growth forest. This bird was declared as the Municipal Bird of Consolacion, Cebu.

CEBU FLOWERPECKER (Dicaeum quadricolor)

Cebu Flowerpecker is a diminutive rare bird and strictly confined to the forest. It was last sighted in 1906 and listed extinct in 1971, but was rediscovered in 1992 in a tiny forest patch at Mount Tabunan Forest, just 25km from the heart of Cebu City in South Central Philippines. This bird is the Provincial Bird of Cebu.

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