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Rail travel season is here as “Breezy Blue” trains take passengers on an anxiety-relieving journey | 2022-07-21 12:04:00

Before the first weekend in July, Huang Meng-feng of Taipei drove the entire north-to-south length of Taiwan so his children could romp through the sand at Little Bay, a warm-water swimming beach in the resort township of Kenting.

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The 48 Taiwan Tourist Shuttle routes offering 50% bus fare discounts include some popular destinations | 2022-07-05 21:17:00

Conservationists on Wednesday urged the Penghu County Government to ban the capture of Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus sea urchins. The Maritime Citizen Foundation and the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan said that their volunteer divers only found two specimens — near Jianshan (尖山) — when they surveyed the waters near the archipelago. The groups estimated that the number of sea urchins living in the area has fallen from 200 million about 50 years ago to about 50,000 today. Even thou...

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 ...

This month the government floated plans to extend the High Speed Rail (HSR) network around the entire island. Transportation Minister Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said that this dream will be built piece by piece, due to its high construction costs. At present plans are being formulated for an extension to Yilan, with the new HSR station slated for a site 350 meters south of the Yilan county government complex. The government has promised to put in a new train station there as well. That project ...

Taipei, June 7 (CNA) Coral reefs around Liuqiu Island off southwest Taiwan are in the worst condition among all reefs around the country, according to the findings of an 12-year study of the reefs released by the Taiwan Environmental Information Association (TEIA) on Tuesday.

Coral reefs surrounding Siaoliouciou Island (小琉球) are not likely to recover naturally after the percentage of live coral cover dropped to 10 to 20 percent, the lowest in the nation’s waters, experts told a news conference in Taipei yesterday. The Taiwan Environmental Information Association released the results of a study from 2009 to 2020 ahead of World Oceans Day today. Since 2009, the association has been monitoring changes in coral reefs off Taiwan’s north, northeast, east and sout...