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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 a barrier to the crabs, which reproduce on land, he said. Citing roadkill figures gathered by volunt...
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 is paralleled by a proposal to spend billions to put in an express rail line to
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 south coasts, as well as those off Green Island (綠島), Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼), Siaoliouciou an...