I've also seen the planting of betelnut and high mountain tea in the Hualien and Taitung areas. I feel these problems were certainly not created overnight. If we had had reporters stationed long term there and genuinely concerned about the aboriginal settlements, we might have been able to take precautions earlier, "says Yang Sen Hong. He hopes that all the indigenous reporters can become" Taiwan's mountain forest watchmen. "
「我看到銅門、紅葉村在水災後，一夕間化為烏有等事，覺得絕不是一夕造成的，又如各山區種檳榔、高山茶等破壞生態保育的事，如果我們有媒體記者長期駐在、關注山地部落，或可提早預警」，楊憲宏說，他希望每個原住民記者都能成為「台灣山林的守望者」。