Control Yuan member and environmental activist Ma Yi-kung addresses the Taipei City’s mishandling of the Yuanta I Pin Building case. The cover of Ma Yi-kung and Han Han’s book, We Only Have One Earth. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsAccording to the Taiwan Environmental Information Association, experts still don’t agree on whether today’s mangroves are native to Tamsui. Those that support the theory maintain that as early as the 1600s, Spanish colonizers in northern Taiwan record seeing many mangrove forests in the area. The mangrove forests in southern Taiwan, however, are definitely not native as they were planted as a natural barrier in the 1950s to protect Taiwan’s shores.

Source: Taipei Times October 17, 2020 15:56 UTC