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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
Students at the Laun Cheng branch of Shuei Chuen Elementary School in Pingtung County’s Hengchun Peninsula yesterday hold an underwater “scuba graduation ceremony” organized by the Taiwan Dive Center to “replace surgical masks with scuba-diving masks.”
Pingtung County’s Mudan Township (牡丹) has erected a statue of Paiwan leader Aruqu Kavulungan and his son, who were killed in the Mudan Incident, with the hope of sharing the Paiwan perspective of the incident.
The Mudan Incident occurred in 1871 when Ryukuan sailors were shipwrecked off Hengchun Peninsula.
They were massacred by Paiwan when the sailors ended up in their village of Kuskus which today is Gaoshih Village (高士) in Mudan.
The incident is usually told from the Japanese perspective. It was used by the Japanese as a pretense for the 1874 invasion of Taiwan which at the time was