Endangered Formosan black bears caught in Taiwanese ‘snaring crisis’ (commentary)

Endangered Formosan black bears caught in Taiwanese ‘snaring crisis’ (commentary)

In 2020 a report titled “Wildlife-snaring crisis in Asian Forests” was published by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), estimating that over 12 million snares engulf Indochinese forests (Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) alone, mostly in ‘protected’ areas. By contrast, it is difficult to know how many snares blanket Taiwan’s mountainous forests, but it is safe […]

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