2021/02/23 20:52 (Tourism Bureau photo) (Tourism Bureau photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) As the 2021 Taiwan Lantern Festival was scrapped due to pandemic concerns, the Tourism Bureau has decided to display the event’s painstakingly crafted artworks elsewhere, according to a press release. The national lantern festival was originally planned to take place in Hsinchu City from Feb. 26 to March 7. After the festival was canceled, the bureau decided that during the same period, the six secondary art installations would be displayed at four other locations. These include one installation at the wood storage pond in Checheng in the Sun Moon Lake National Area, two at the Beimen Visitor Center in the Southwest Coast National Scenic Area, one at the Baguashan Ecology Visitor Center in the Tri-Mountain National Scenic Area, and two in the outlying island county of Kinmen.
Diver ‘heartbroken’ after failure to revive sea turtle
By Tsai Tsung-hsien
and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A diver on Saturday tried in vain to save a critically endangered sea turtle that became entangled in a fishing net off the southern coast the 49th such case this year.
“I am really heartbroken,” the diving instructor, surnamed Tseng (曾), said yesterday of losing the hawksbill sea turtle, despite administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Tseng was with a trainee at a diving spot off Shanhai Fishing Harbor (山海漁港) in Pingtung County’s Hengchun Township (恆春) when they discovered a discarded 2m-by-40m gillnet.
A diver brings a sea turtle that was trapped in a fishing net to the surface off the coast of Pingtung County on Saturday.