in process
Humans have done nature a great deal of wrong. They not only destroy themselves in the process—probably not a great loss to nature—they alter it, destroy it, and poison it. But whatever happens, nature ultimately wins and reclaims what belongs to it. This description may sound less idealized or theatrical to many Indigenous people in Taiwan. Nature, spirits, ancestors, and souls are interconnected.
(Snap traps, probably the most cruel form of hunting in Taiwan, and frowned upon by traditional Indigenous hunters)
What today looks like a naturally formed landscape around Jiufen is actually the result of decades of destruction. I have described the poisoning of the area in other posts. But around Jiufen, things went even further: the geographical structure of the landscape itself was destroyed.
