“Non-human animal creatures and people are a community with a shared future,” several animal groups said in a joint statement on Friday. The 62-year-old man, Talum Suqluman, also known as Tama Talum, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. But Mr. Talum continued to fight the conviction, and the case went to the Constitutional Court, which reviewed whether the laws unfairly infringed on the rights of Indigenous people to hunt. Under the current laws, Indigenous people are allowed to carry out small hunts but only using homemade guns and traps, which are sometimes unsafe. They must obtain prior approval and they are banned from killing protected species, including leopard cats and Formosan black bears.

Source: International New York Times May 07, 2021 11:47 UTC