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Nature 408, 905 (21 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35050266

Taiwan pays the price for growth, in toxic pollution

Govindasamy Agoramoorthy1 & Minna J. Hsu2

  1. Department of Wildlife Conservation, National Pingtung University of Science & Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan
  2. Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

The environmental damage induced by the growth of Taiwan's technological revolution was not covered in your recent Insight feature about this country1. A century ago, British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was impressed with Taiwan's natural beauty2.