Close-up footage of a Formosan black bear eating its lunch by a river
Close-up footage of a Formosan black bear eating its lunch by a river
2024-02-23
Now, for fans of Taiwan’s wild landscapes: employees of the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency in Chiayi are celebrating. They caught close-up footage of a Formosan black bear eating its lunch by a river. The footage is the best of its kind for the Chiayi Branch office. It’s the result of a new project placing infrared cameras across Chiayi and Tainan. Other cameras have caught exciting glimpses of many wild animals, like bears, deer, and martens.
A Formosan black bear stands on some boulders by the side of this river, guzzling on a fresh catch. When it’s full, it bounds nimbly away across the water.
The footage was taken at Nanzihsian River by an employee of the Chiayi Branch of the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency. Colleagues are still cooing over it.
Hsu Yu-ching
Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Chiayi Branch
We’ve never had such close-up footage before. Normally, we just see traces of the bears, or excrement, nothing so close-up, or eating food like this. Black bears are extremely wary of humans.
The branch has installed automatic infrared cameras in the mountains of Chiayi and Tainan, to monitor the movements of wild animal populations and collect footage. They’ve captured: wild boar hunting for food, two small bears, yellow-throated martens gathering to drink from a pond, a sambar deer wallowing in mud, and a curious Reeve’s muntjac staring into the lens.
Lee Ting-chung
Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Chiayi Branch
We’ve recorded some very diverse footage of animals, and even very cute images. This allows us to understand trends in the dispersal of animal populations, and draw up our conservation strategies.
These precious images also reveal the successes of past conservation projects. But experts are keen to stress that if you visit the mountains and happen to come upon a similar scene, never give a bear cause for alarm.
Hsu Yu-ching
Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Chiayi Branch
If you meet a black bear in the wild, you must stay calm. Don’t raise your voice. Keep facing the bear, and slowly back away, out of its line of sight. And then escape from the area.
The agency also notes that if you come across a wild animal, don’t touch it, don’t disturb it, and don’t feed it: “three don’ts.” But do make sure you take away any food you take into the wild, to avoid causing any damage to the mountain ecosystems.
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直擊台灣黑熊溪邊大啖水鹿 食畢後輕鬆過溪
2024-02-23
林業及自然保育署嘉義分署，在嘉南山區架設自動相機，進行野生動物族群動態監測，蒐集到許多豐富的野生動物畫面，還直擊到黑熊在溪邊覓食，相當珍貴。
一隻台灣黑熊站在溪邊大石頭上，大快朵頤剛捕捉到的食物，吃得津津有味。飽餐一頓之後，帶著輕快的腳步，越過溪水離開。
這是林業及自然保育署嘉義分署人員在楠梓仙溪目擊到的畫面，忍不住喊好可愛。
[[林業保育署嘉義分署自然保育科長 許玉青]]
“過去沒有這麼近距離的拍攝到，就是通常我們只會看到殘骸，或者是排遺，比較沒有近距離的，可以拍到牠正在吃東西，因為黑熊其實對人類的戒心也很重”
林業及自然保育署嘉義分署在嘉義、台南山區，架設紅外線自動相機，進行野生動物族群動態監測，蒐集到豐富的野生動物畫面。包括野豬群覓食找好料、2隻小熊，另外還有黃喉貂聚在水池邊飲水，在泥巴中打滾的水鹿，以及好奇盯著相機觀看的山羌。
[[林業保育署嘉義分署副分署長 李定忠]]
“紀錄到這些動物有些非常多元，甚至於可愛的狀況，也從這裏可以了解到整個，野生動物族群繁衍的一個趨勢，來擬定整個保育的策略”
這些珍貴的影像，讓人看到台灣保育的成果，民眾若到山中，遇見黑熊出沒，千萬不要驚慌。
[[林業保育署嘉義分署自然保育科長 許玉青]]
“在野外遇到黑熊的話，我們就是要保持冷靜，不要聲張，正面面向黑熊緩慢的退出牠的視線，然後再逃離現場”
林業保育署也提醒民眾，面對野生動物，要做到三不，不接觸、不干擾、不餵食，同時也要將廚餘和食物帶走，避免破壞山林生態。
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