ANIMAL TRADE
<strong>Thousands of species banned</strong>
An import ban on more than 8,000 species of live animals is to take effect on Wednesday next week, the Forestry Bureau said. Animals such as raccoons and the crested myna are to be banned from entering Taiwan without authorization from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the bureau said. The banned import list includes one mammal, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates, totaling 8,478 species, it said, adding that they are being banned because they pose a threat to Taiwan’s endemic species or its agricultural produce. People caught importing any of the animals without authorization would face
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The final volume of a comprehensive encyclopedia on Taiwanese butterflies has been published, setting a milestone in Asian lepidopterology.
In five volumes with six books, Butterfly Fauna of Taiwan (臺灣蝶類誌) contains introductions and color photographs of the great variety of butterfly species found in Taiwan, along with detailed descriptions in Chinese and English.
This year saw the publication of the fifth and final volume of the project that began in 2018, the Forestry Bureau said on Wednesday.
It was compiled by the bureau along with Hsu Yu-feng (徐堉峰), a renowned butterfly and moth expert at National Taiwan Normal University.
Dubbed the “kingdom of butterflies,”
Chinese officials are ramping up a campaign to force United Nations agencies, governments, companies and even schools to say Taiwan is a part of China.