Environmental Impact Assessment: Mending muntjacs and saving civets
A team is working hard for its wildlife patients at eastern Taiwan’s first wildlife rescue center and hospital
By Steven Crook / Contributing reporter
On the evening of Sept. 2, just as they set off to eat dinner, the staff at WildOne Wildlife Rescue Center, in Taitung County’s Chihshang Township (池上), were notified that a car had collided with a Reeves’s muntjac a type of small deer on the other side of the Coastal Mountain Range.
“We don’t yet have a rescue vehicle, but the police in Changbin (長濱) didn’t hesitate to help. About an hour later, they brought the injured muntjac to us,” remembers Chi Meng-jou (綦孟柔), co-founder and chairperson of WildOne Wildlife Conservation Association (野灣野生動物保育協會).