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Our October opened with another wonderful group of Singapore friends from Wild Space! 🌱

During this Wild Taiwan trip, we visited three different tea farms together, travelling through the mountains and harvesting leaves between the tea rows. We immersed ourselves in the tea environment, drank plenty of tea, and listened to the stories of tea farmers pursuing sustainable farming.

Wild Space also brought us along to visit the leopard cat research and wildlife rescue team at Taiwan’s Biodiversity Research Institute (阿虎團隊), who shared the challenges facing Taiwan’s wildlife. We learned that leopard cats also use farmland as habitat, hunting rats there or crossing it to move through a fragmented landscape. When agricultural chemicals are used, they can travel up the food chain and reach the animals at the top, affecting their health and survival. This is just one example of how closely agriculture and wildlife are tied together, and why sustainable farming matters for conservation too.

Together, we learned to see tea through a new lens, as part of a landscape shared by farmers, forests, and the wildlife that depend on them.

A big thank you to Wayfinders Travel @wayfinders.travel for facilitating this trip and inviting us to share the tea farming side of the journey ✨ More photos are in our IG stories and highlights. We look forward to another tea journey with Wayfinders Travel & Wild Space @_wildspace !