The Taichung Police Department’s reorganization of police dog handlers is cruel to the animals and disrupts human-canine teamwork, the New Power Party’s (NPP) Taichung chapter said on Wednesday.
The department in November last year imposed a two-year term limit on police dog handlers and last month dismissed four of its eight handlers, NPP officials told a news conference outside the Taichung City Government building.
Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) is using police dogs as props in public relations events instead of deploying skilled working animals that require special care, said Hsu Hsiao-mei (徐小媚), the party’s regional director for the city’s South and
Ryukyu flying foxes might be making a comeback in Hualien County, with a study finding more than 50 after years of steep population decline has left no more than 200 nationwide.
The findings were announced at an event organized by the county government on Thursday as part of its campaign to preserve the endangered species.
Although relatively stable in Japan and the Philippines, Taiwan’s population of the fruit bat has fallen significantly to less than that of the Formosan black bear and leopard cat.
They can still be spotted on Yilan County’s Turtle Island (龜山島) and Taitung County’s Green Island (綠島), with the