Friday, August 01, 2008

The symbolic creature in Taiwan

Owing to the particular geological status of Taiwan, it fosters a diversity of species in this land. Taiwan locates in the subtropical and tropical station, the various weather changes here has created a suitable habitat for many kinds of creatures to live here and one of the famous inhabitants in Taiwan is butterfly. Taiwan used to have a name is the kingdom of the butterfly; according to this name you can infer that it has a vital status no matter in economic field for Taiwan’s people or the enormous number of itself. Butterfly used to be an important financial income for the dwellers whose in the poor condition. 63 years ago, Taiwan was under controlled by the Japan’s government, the people who lived in Pu-li, in the middle of Taiwan used to be a place that bred a huge quantity of butterfly, in order to earn the extra money to support their family. Therefore, during that period of time, many factories were established to engage in manufacturing the butterfly; the most common products been seen was the manual ornament. However, the number of the butterfly still declined even though many people in that time fostered a great amount of butterfly. The main reason is the problem of pollution and the destruction in Taiwan becomes worse and worse, which is radical affects the existence of environment for the butterfly. And another minor reason is the number of the butterfly was over bred in the past; as a result, the sum of food was not enough for the big number of butterfly. Consequently, the proportion of the butterfly had a slightly decreased. Although the diversity of butterfly has dropped down, it used to be a critical source of money for many people. There is a conceivable reason to believe that Taiwan is the kingdom of butterfly. Due to the species of butterfly in Taiwan is up to 400 kinds, and there are around 40 species of butterfly only can be found here; hence, Taiwan is qualified to have this reputation. One of my favorite butterflies is Fruhstorfer, since its wings can have many different colors depends on the species and the volume of its body is not as big as the others; thus, I like the way it looks very elegant and delicate. Butterfly is just one of the precious preservations in Taiwan. Taiwan opposes many great natural conditions for the life-form to stay here as long as we give them a polluted free territory. Butterfly is a good example to indicate that the important role it was in the earlier peoples’ life and the beauty it has also glamorize the land of Taiwan.

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