But some of them are in trouble
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/18
By: Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan is a butterfly lover’s paradise. In the past,
(Image from Unsplash user Nandhu Kumar)
lepidopterists (people who study moths and butterflies) has recorded 373 different species of butterflies on the island.
Now however, after several typhoons and shifting climate patters, that number has recently increased to over 420 different butterfly species.
Compare that to Japan; which possesses nearly 10 times the land mass of Taiwan, but has only recorded about 230 species of butterflies.
Taiwan’s great number of butterfly species may sound amazing, but it is actually somewhat worrying, as the habitats that many of them need to survive are being threatened by both humans, and natural disasters like typhoons. [FULL STORY]
