Page 18 - Chishang News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Indigenous hunting traditions on the upper court of Taiwan Indigenous Rights News Taipei, Taiwan – Indigenous Taiwanese are awaiting a major ruling by the island’s high court on Friday that will determine the scope of traditional hunting rights and pave the way for a limited return of civilian firearms to the island after legal restrictions on use. In the early 1980s. The case began eight years ago in 2013 when Bunun native hunter Talum Suqluman (Wang Kuang-lu) was prosecuted under the island’s wildlife conservation laws. He was initially sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison af...

Environmental Impact Assessment: Mending muntjacs and saving civets A team is working hard for its wildlife patients at eastern Taiwan’s first wildlife rescue center and hospital By Steven Crook / Contributing reporter On the evening of Sept. 2, just as they set off to eat dinner, the staff at WildOne Wildlife Rescue Center, in Taitung County’s Chihshang Township (池上), were notified that a car had collided with a Reeves’s muntjac — a type of small deer — on the other side of the Coastal Mountain Range. “We don’t yet have a rescue vehicle, but the police in Changbin (長濱...