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Taiwan: the pangolin’s last stand? The shy, enigmatic scaly ant eater finds its final refuge in Taiwan during the age of its worldwide extinction By Gregory McCann / Contributing reporter Who would have thought that Taiwan just over 100km from China and a few hundred kilometers away from Vietnam, which are the world’s first and second biggest consumers of pangolin scales would become the last beacon of hope for this imperiled species? In fact, pangolins from sub-species in Africa all the way down to Indonesia are the world’s most highly trafficked mammal. Thought to cure anything from HIV to hangovers, ground pangolin scales and pangolin soup (the photos online are difficult to stomach) are expensive delicacies in Vietnam and China, and the rarer the species becomes, the more it is sought after because it is going extinct creating a dreadful vicious cycle propelling the animal into oblivion. ....
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 after being found guilty of using a “transformed rifle” to kill two protected animals, although that period was suspended in 2017 after international protest. ....
Could the Formosan Clouded Leopard still be found in the wild? One man’s account of using intuition to track down a mysterious animal that has fascinated the scientific community for years By Gregory McCann / Contributing reporter Whether or not the Formosan clouded leopard still exists in some hidden mountain fastness somewhere in Taiwan is a question that has fascinated the scientific community for many years. Taiwanese researchers attempted to put the question to rest a decade ago by scouring the Dawushan Nature Reserve (大武山) in Taitung County, but came back empty-handed. The survey ran from 1997-2012 and used over a thousand camera traps, but did not turn up a single cat, and the species was declared extinct in 2013. Renowned Taiwanese conservationists Chiang Po-jen (姜博仁) and Kurtis Pei (裴家騏) conducted the field work and published a definitive paper on the failed hunt. ....