With the ruling and opposition parties slugging it out over the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, a cargo ship ran quietly aground in mid-January just offshore from the Lungkeng Ecological Protection Area in Kenting National Park. Preliminary containment of the resulting oil spill was not achieved until late February. In the meantime, Taiwan has been hit by a rash of forest fires. Clearly, the activities of man are becoming increasingly destructive of nature.
在朝野各界為核四事件吵嚷不休之際，發生在一月中旬的墾丁龍坑生態油污事件，直到二月底才受到初步控制，加上近來台灣山區森林火災屢撲屢起，顯現台灣生態的危機，已不容人們將焦點放在單一的開發事件上，全面性的大地破壞與自然反撲更值得關注。