By Hua Meng-ching and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Kavalan community on Saturday celebrated the 20th anniversary of being granted official recognition as the nation’s 11th indigenous community.
Between Jan. 1 and the end of this month, humanity will exhaust Mother Nature’s biocapacity for the entire year of 2022.
Biocapacity is the ability of ecosystems to regenerate resources and absorb waste. If they’re left alone, depleted fish stocks may recover, soil can regain its health and woodlands that have been thinned will regrow. Both oceans and forests absorb anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.
But since around 1971, the world as a whole has been consuming ecosystem services and outputs faster than nature can regenerate them. Earth Overshoot Day exists to alert people to this alarming truth.
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People relax inside a house made of woven bamboo by Taiwanese land artist Wang Wen-chih in Hualien County’s Fonglin Township yesterday. Wang, who spent two months building the “Camp-boo” installation with tens of thousands bamboo fragments, unveiled the work on Saturday. It is to be open to the public until the end of this year.
Taiwan is expected to receive two batches totaling more than 2.63 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine next week, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday.
A shipment of 1.86 million doses is expected to arrive in Taiwan on Monday, to be administered as booster shots later this month to people aged 12 to 17, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center.
A 777,600-dose shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 is expected to follow on Tuesday, he said.
The shipments are part of a purchase agreement signed on Thursday last