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If you searched for armadillos on Google, you can find the following results: this January, there was a local from Chiayi who saw a live armadillo caught, by an animal trap, he’d spent $3,000N.T. to save its life, but, couldn’t save the right back leg that was already overcome with sepsis, which had to be, amputated.
March, a man in Tai-An County, Miaoli, saw someone with an armadillo with an injured hind leg for sale, he’d spent two thousand dollars, bought the animal, took it to the Agricultural Department Office in Miaoli, it’d also needed to get amputated for its life to be spared as well.
a leopard cat that’s on the endangered list, photo from online…
In June, a man in the marketplaces of Shui-Li County in Nantou, saw someone selling an injured armadillo, he’d spent five thousand dollars buying it, took it to the emergency wildlife rescue center, and, so many scales on it had been, pulled off. In the county close by, Guoxing, an armadillo made its way into a residence, and its tail was bitten off by the pet dog of the owner of the house.
In July, a woman from Nantou took an armadillo injured by her dog, to the specialty wildlife center for treatment, after the veterinarian worked on the animal for a long time, the armadillo still died, due to serious laceration on the scales on its back. The day before, this same woman just, witnessed an armadillo getting bitten to death by a hunting dog. The reporter of this particular story wrote on the first lines, “We’re doing a good job in the wild, the population of armadillos is growing, it’s not hard to see them in the mountains close by the suburbs, but the forefront being, that they are still well and alive. In the destroyed forest’s habitat, or being eaten as food or Chinese traditional medicine, armadillos had, become a “precious, rare wild animal”, I can’t even begin to imagine how many armadillos the animal shelters had, taken in, the armadillos with the scales torn off, and those which were, amputated.
a tiger with the paws severed off by a trap…not my photo.
And because of this, the Hualien County government allowed the Takoro tribe to “in a specific time frame, in a specific number, and in specific areas”, hunt the local breeds of goats, muntjacs, water deer, monkeys, and armadillos, a total of FIVE protected species, it’d run the rest of the communities into judgments. And, although the forestry sector of the agricultural department stated, that they will “Review over the laws on the allowing of natives to keep their ritualistic rites”, and struck armadillos from the hunting list, and the natives also promised to not hunt them, but it’d still caused doubts in the general public, is the government really into resolve the issues between open hunting, and protecting the environment, this, dichotomy? Or, is the government just, pushing the issue to the two opposing sides, the natives versus the environmentalists?
Are the wildlife living well in the wild? Let’s put aside, these tragically ended lives of the armadillos, just last month, a Taiwanese bear was found dead, by the riverbed close to the waterfall in Hualien, this adult female was only ten, but its left front paw was severed off, there was a fracture of its fifth right front toe, and it’d been clipped by the illegally set up traps at least twice. During that month, there’d been found, two dead Taiwanese bears, and, there are only about two to six hundred of the Taiwanese bear population in the wild.
Are the wildlife living well in the wilderness? I don’t dare to answer this question, because I’d also, looked up the leopard cat.
dead muntjacs here, found online…
If you’d just, not looked at the statistics, ignored the endangered species, and kept developing the lands, and continued to stay aloof toward the overuse of the animal traps, keep consoling yourselves, that it’s because how the wildlife protections agency is doing a good job, that, is why more dead bodies turned up in the wilderness, then, just carry on with your beliefs. Whether it be in the cities, the fields, the mountains, or in the oceans, it’s enough, that humans are around, humans are, scary enough.
So, this, should raise an alarm about wildlife, and, thinking about it, if humans still can’t coexist in peace with everything in the wilderness, then, humans are going to suffer the consequences of raping the earth, and, it’s already happened, how many species of living organisms had become, totally or close to extinct in the past fifty years again??? Exactly, and if we don’t bring these issues of conservation to the table to discuss, then, more and more species are going to get put on that endangered list, and then, they’ll all become, EXTINCT!!!
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