What the golden apple snail brings is not fortune or longevity: Gongliao invasive species impact series
Since the start of spring this year, before the first lunar month had even ended, the once peaceful mountain town of Gongliao grew tense over a few incidents. One of them was that partners, while up in the mountains, happened to find a patch of wasteland beside the road that had just been cleared, and on the concrete retaining wall there were egg masses of the golden apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata), which made us worry that the golden apple snail had overcome the rushing stream, that natural barrier, and might drop straight into the mountains to begin spreading.
Beside every Hehe Production Team field area, a notice is put up reminding visitors not to cause harm through getting too close.
Although the golden apple snail is listed among the top 100 invasive alien species, causing serious agricultural losses to Taiwan's farming and squeezing the habitat space of Taiwan's native organisms, living things themselves bear no original sin; the golden apple snail too is just trying to survive. Every ecosystem is the appearance retained after a long period of succession, only that alien organisms introduced by humans are often not a member of the native ecosystem; with no natural enemies, in the course of foraging and competition they may all affect the local ecological environment, especially organisms capable of traveling far from home and reproducing smoothly, which are relatively dominant, just like the golden apple snail, which was crowned with "fortune and longevity" yet never truly brought fortune or longevity.
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