Taiwan's race to save endangered plant species

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In the forests and on remote offshore islands of Taiwan, a group of conservationists are racing to collect as many rare plant species as they can before they are lost to climate change and human encroachment.

Sheng Sian Dai, a senior collection manager at Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center, waters plants in a nursery where he works, in Pingtung, Taiwan, July 23, 2020.

"I started collecting plants when I was still at school. I didn't used to think it was that important. But since I began working at the conservation centre, I have realized that many things that used to be there, are there no longer," said Hung Hsin-chieh, a research assistant at the conservation centre.

Taiwan's government has made environmental protection and a shift to renewable energy a key priority, but the island still ranks poorly when it comes to tackling climate change.Hung Hsin-Chieh, a research assistant at Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center, takes care of a fern that he collected from a forest, in a nursery at Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center in Pingtung, Taiwan, July 24, 2020.

Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center employees Hung Hsin-chieh, a research assistant, and Cheng Ken Yu, the moss and bryophyta collection manager, make a log of the plants they collected from Jin Shui forest earlier that day, at their campsite in Pingtung, Taiwan, Sept. 10, 2020."We hope that these species have a chance to return to their original habitat. Or one day, when we wish to create a habitat, these species are able to live there happily," said Ken Yu.

 

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So bame our President. Thats what Politics does

Throughout all of human history plants and animals have come and gone having NOTHING to do with mankind's activities. The fact that today some plants and animals come and go STILL has nothing to do with human activity. Leftists are always 'clever' but they're never smart.

You knew about Epstein and didn’t report it when you had a chance. You’re worthless as an organization.

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