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Despite suffocating population density and a history of reckless industrialization, Taiwan remains an island of globally significant biodiversity, as well as a country where finding wild creatures isn’t difficult. The northern part of the country has a subtropical climate, while the south falls into the tropical climate zone. Because of the complex and vertiginous topography, there are places that swelter for several months each year, while others experience snowfall and freezing nighttime temperatures. Crucially, Taiwan has been an island for something like 12,000 years, since the end of the Last Glacial Period resulted in rising sea levels. The lifeforms that established themselves ....
Budai egrets add solar farm to habitat By Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter Egrets adapt better than most birds when a solar farm moves into their habitat, experts said, after images of egrets excreting feces on solar panels went viral online. On Tuesday, the Budai Salt Pan Wetlands (布袋五鹽田) posted images on Facebook of birds resting on solar panels erected in a detention basin, while close-ups showed that the panels had been covered with the egrets’ droppings. The basin in Chiayi County’s Budai Township (布袋) was in 2019 transformed from an abandoned salt pan into a solar farm, the Facebook page said in Chinese and English. ....
Doctors urge proper dress, vigilance during cold spell By Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA Doctors are urging older people and those with a history of cardiopulmonary disease to dress warmly and monitor their health after reports of several deaths resulting from the current cold front. The Chiayi County Fire Department was called on Wednesday morning after family members found an 80-year-old woman not breathing in their home in Budai Township (布袋). The woman was not hospitalized because she showed no vital signs when firefighters arrived, the fire department said. A member of the Hsinchu County Fire Department demonstrates how to cover somebody in a blanket to maximize warmth in this undated photograph. ....