Lights Out for the Firefly: "A lot of the creatures we could see everywhere when we were young are gone, and for those that remain, the numbers have shrunk," affirms 40-year-old Chao Jung-tai, director of the Department of Forestry Preservation at the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute.
東海大學生物系教授林俊義曾整理四十年來台灣哺乳動物分佈的高度表，發現它們棲息地平均升高了約一千公尺。