Taipei, Oct. 15 (CNA) The Taiwan Forestry Research Institute on Friday announced it had captured an unprecedentedly detailed 3-D digital scan of a 79.1-meter tall cypress tree thought to be the tallest documented in East Asia.
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In Taiwan, as in other countries that have experienced rapid industrialization, one downside of development has been the degradation of its rivers.
To some extent, this has been a result of people turning their backs on the streams that watered their ancestors’ fields and the creeks where their grandmothers washed clothes. Once tap water was available, and road bridges crossed major waterways, urban residents no longer had any reason to think about rivers unless they needed a place to dump waste that couldn’t be burned.
Industrial, agricultural and municipal pollution has done enormous damage to riparian ecosystems, or river banks. Heavy
Thanks to the pre-pandemic tourism boom, much of Taiwan’s tourism infrastructure has been updated in the past decade. Among those who have especially benefited are people who need wheelchairs to get about, and those who struggle when faced with obstacles that the able-bodied can step over or step around.
Not every brand-new facility is perfect, but the concept of “universal design” (ensuring that buildings and other environments are accessible to everyone, regardless of age, disability or other factors) is slowly entering the mainstream.
This article looks at three tourist destinations where the needs of the infirm and wheelchair-bound have been taken into