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A team of zoologists have been looking for the Formosan clouded leopard, indigenous to Taiwan, for 13 years. Last week they announced it was extinct.

By Ralph Jennings,?Correspondent / May 6, 2013

The news that the clouded leopards that once prowled the lowlands of Taiwan have become extinct here has prompted expressions of concern among an increasingly conservationist public.

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Ralph Jennings has covered news in China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia for the past 14 years. He lives in Taipei and holds a degree in mass communication from the University of California in Berkeley.?

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The Formosan clouded leopard, a subspecies of large cats, probably died out here some 100 years ago, Taiwan university researchers determined after a four-year study found no photos, fur, or paw prints in a preserve considered their most likely home.

The news has led many Taiwanese to question the side-effects of the island?s economic development. In turn, animal advocates say this examination has fueled conservation movements. ?

?A lot of people have said they are disappointed and find our discovery quite regrettable,? says Kurtis Pei, a study leader from National Pingtung University of Science and Technology?s Institute of Wildlife Conservation. ?Some say they hope not just to feel regret but to do something to save other animals.?

Mr. Pei and five other researchers set up cameras and catnip-baited hair traps, and trolled the jungle for the Formosan clouded leopards from 2000 to 2004, spending the time since then to analyze data in an area that was later made impassable by typhoons. The team took 16,000 photos in 400 spots, Pei says. They also looked for paw prints and fur. Still, despite their efforts, they found no trace of the meter-long cats named for their large cloudlike spots.

?There hasn?t been any evidence of their continued existence,? he says.?

The results announced last week confirm a 1985 study that also found no traces of the animal, which is indigenous to Taiwan. Pei says urbanization, farming, poaching, and industry pushed the species from its native lowland hills into poorer habitat in the mountains. The last piece of evidence of their existence here was a picture in a Japanese colonist?s diary dated 1910.

Researchers had held out hope that the species, which is still found in other parts of Asia, could still exist here, too.

The main species of clouded leopards is considered vulnerable to extinction in the?Himalayas. The Bornean clouded leopard, another species, lives on Borneo and Sumatra in Indonesia and is also considered vulnerable.

As much of Taiwan?s public places priority in urban economic successes, few saw animals as relevant to their lives until this news, activists in Taipei say.?

?Awareness of conservation is better than before but still lacking,? says Chu Tseng-hung, executive director of the conservationist group Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan. Reaction often comes down to exposure, he adds. ?With clouded leopards, if you have never seen one, you won?t have any reaction now,? he says.?

Activists hope the clouded leopard case will be an incentive to help save other species here.

Wild animals such as the leopard and Formosan black bear are now threatened by poaching plus development that dominates all but the east coast and high interior mountains. Taiwan, at 634 people per square kilometer, has one of the world?s densest populations. (It?s about the size of the state of Maryland, but has a population of 23 million.) Leopard cats number about 500 and the bears closer to 1,000.?

Whether a groundswell of people will be able to save other species depends on whether activists take this opportunity to get the word out, says Sean McCormack, cofounder of the Taiwan SPCA. ?When the Taiwanese are aware of issues, they get behind them 100 percent,? he says.?

The clouded leopard research team may need support for reintroducing clouded leopards by bringing in a starter population from elsewhere in Asia, Pei says. He hopes to stir up more popular enthusiasm, as the government would need to sign off as well. ?Just for scholars to discuss the issue isn?t that helpful,? Pei says.

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Biographer Eve LaPlante praises Louisa May Alcott and her mother Abigail (model for ‘Marmee’ in ‘Little Women’) as ‘foremothers’ ? who paved the way for modern women.

By Eve LaPlante,?Contributor / May 6, 2013

Louisa May Alcott learned from her mother, Abigail, to think of women as equal to any man.

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This weekend, as we pay tribute to mothers, we should remember not only the women who nurtured us ? mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, aunts, and teachers ? but also the brave maternal figures of the past who paved our way. For centuries, female activists and writers struggled, often without public recognition, for the freedoms we enjoy today. In a nation replete with founding fathers, it seems necessary to acknowledge foremothers, too.

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I?ve been inspired by Louisa May Alcott and her mother, the model for ?Marmee? in Alcott?s 1868 classic, “Little Women.” Alcott was childless but gave readers a good deal of motherly advice. Unlike most of her peers, Alcott believed girls should have the same opportunities as boys. Jo March, her teenage alter ego, promises to ?do something splendid? with her life, ?something heroic, or wonderful ? that won?t be forgotten after I?m dead.? Alcott herself envisioned a future world in which women would have the same public rights as men, to vote, travel, speak out, and run governments. During her final decade, she used the bully pulpit of her celebrity to urge girls and women to assert their rights.

?Wait for no man,? Alcott advised her readers in 1877, when it was still improper for a woman to walk outside unescorted by a man. Young women should educate themselves through travel, she wrote. A lengthy European tour she had taken with a sister and a female friend ?proved,? despite ?prophecies to the contrary,? that women could travel ?unprotected safely over land and sea … experience two revolutions, an earthquake, an eclipse, and a flood? and yet encounter ?no disappointment.? Assuming a motherly tone, Alcott wrote, ?We respectfully advise all timid sisters now lingering doubtfully on shore, to strap up their bundles in light marching order, and push boldly off. They will need no protector but their own courage, no guide but their own good sense…. Bring home empty trunks, if you will, but heads full of new and larger ideas, hearts richer in the sympathy that makes the whole world kin, hands readier to help on the great work God gives humanity.?

Where did Alcott learn to think this way? Not from Dr. Johnson, who encouraged young men to explore the world, but from her mother, who was also her mentor and muse. Abigail May Alcott, born in 1800, was raised, to her regret, without formal schooling. Expected only to marry and raise a family, Abigail watched with longing as her brother received a ?man?s education? to prepare for a career. ?Stand up among your fellow men,? their father admonished her brother on his college graduation. ?Improve your advantages. Go anywhere.?

Eighteen-year-old Abigail refused the hand of a man her father selected and then left home for a year to study with a friend of her brother?s. ?I have undertaken? Latin, she informed her parents. Thrilled to translate a chapter of the Latin New Testament into English each Sunday, she confided, ?If I should not succeed I should be mortified to have you know it. I wish my pride was subdued as regards this. I am not willing to be thought incapable of any thing.?

This determination would prove invaluable. At nearly 30 she proposed to the oddball reformer Bronson Alcott, with whom she had a difficult marriage and four daughters. Through three decades of poverty and intermittent homelessness, Abigail worked as a seamstress and social worker, encouraged her daughters? education and careers, and dedicated herself to ending slavery and securing the vote for women.

A woman can accomplish as much as a man, Abigail May Alcott told her daughters so often they came to believe her. ?Be something in yourself,? she advised every young woman she met. ?Educate yourself up to your senses. I say to all the dear girls, keep up! Let the world feel that you are on its surface, alive!?

All her life Abigail May Alcott felt the absence of her father?s advice to a son: Stand up among your fellow men. Improve your advantages. Go anywhere.

With a fierce maternal love, she conveyed to her daughters a similar message, which Louisa relayed to us: Educate yourself up to your senses. Be something in yourself. Let the world know you are alive. Push boldly off. Wait for no man. Have heads full of new and larger ideas. And proceed to the great work God gives humanity.

Let us give thanks for our foremothers on Mother?s Day. Most are forgotten or hidden, and nearly all lacked political power. But we owe them gratitude for the sacrifices they made for their daughters, sacrifices that inspire us today.

Eve LaPlante is the author of the biographies “American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans” and “Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother” as well as two other nonfiction books.

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