Tainan Community University is looking for volunteers to care for juvenile bats that might require a little help during the bat breeding season.
Chao Jui-kuang (晁瑞光), a researcher who is part of the university’s environmental action team, on Friday said the breeding season starts this month and lasts until June or July.
Taiwan’s bat population is rapidly declining due to urban development, Chao said.
However, with 30 local species, Taiwan has great bat diversity, Chao added.
While the university has not yet received any reports of hurt or lost juvenile bats this year, Chao said that based on past experience, the university is expecting
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Highways & Byways: Memories of a deadly earthquake
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Tainan in the early hours of Feb. 6, 2016. Here is an account of the shaking and aftermath
By Steven Crook / Contributing reporter
The fingers on both hands aren’t enough to count the seriously frightening tremors I’ve experienced in my 29 years in Taiwan.
The scariest was the 921 Earthquake, which shook the entire country in the early hours of Sept. 21, 1999. The second most terrifying was the earthquake that woke me and countless other Tainan residents up before dawn on Feb. 6, 2016.
Tomorrow will be the fifth anniversary of the disaster, which killed 117 people, all but two of them in a single apartment complex.