By Tsai Tsung-hsien and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerPingtung County environmentalists yesterday called for measures to protect crabs crossing Checheng Coastal Scenic Road in the county’s Checheng Township （車城）.
Pingtung County environmentalists yesterday called for measures to protect crabs crossing Checheng Coastal Scenic Road in the county’s Checheng Township (車城).
Pingtung County Environmental Protection Union supervisory board member Chu Yu-hsi (朱玉璽) said that numerous crabs dwelling in a nearby wetland are killed by vehicles on a 250m section of the road each year.
The section which runs north-south along the wetland from Sihchong (四重) creek to Baoli (保力) creek acts as a barrier to the crabs, which reproduce on land, he said.
Citing roadkill figures gathered by volunteers, Chu said that vehicles run over about 10 female crabs every day
2020/12/18 16:45 (Pingtung County Government photo) (Pingtung County Government photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A massive green iguana that frightened a Taiwanese woman on Monday, has been arrested and brought to justice, in southern Taiwan after a long lizard hunt was launched. On Monday (Dec. 14), woman surnamed Liu (柳) posted her harrowing encounter with a giant green iguana as it sunned itself on a guardrail. The post soon went viral, with over 300 comments, including some describing it as a little dinosaur. In response, Pingtung Department of Agriculture Director Cheng Yung-yu (鄭永裕) said that he asked the Wild Bird Society of Pingtung County to try to use lassos to catch it and set up traps near the spot where it had last been spotted. On Thursday (Dec. 17), Cheng announced the rapacious reptile had been arrested and brought to justice, and will be euthanized, thus ending what Mirror Media called
2020/12/15 17:42 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A photo of a giant green iguana lying on a curbside taking an apparent sunbath has attracted much attention on social media, racking up hundreds of comments. The photo, taken by a woman surnamed Liu (柳), was posted on Monday (Dec. 14) to a Facebook page for Pingtung County’s Wandan Township with a short text that conveyed her fright at encountering the massive but easygoing beast sunbathing beside a ditch. The post has so far attracted over 300 comments, while in another group, replies reached over 500. Some comments expressed concern over the invasive species’ adverse impact on local ecology, while others blamed people who abandoned them as pets for the county s reptile problem. One user questioned whether such a large lizard would endanger children; another mused whether it might be a dinosaur.
Botulism suspected behind bird deaths: Pingtung official
By Chen Yen-ting / Staff reporter
Sightings of dead ducks and other large birds in wetland areas in Pingtung County’s Donggang Township (東港) have sparked concern among local wildlife advocates and led to calls for immediate action by authorities.
An outbreak of botulism, caused by the neurotoxin-producing
Clostridium botulinum, last year caused the death of a large number of wild birds near the mouth of the Kaoping River (高屏溪), a situation that authorities worry might recur.
Populations of ducks, herons and various species of the
Charadriidae family have in the past few years increased in the wetlands near Dapeng Bay (大鵬灣) and elsewhere in the township.