Environmental Impact Assessment: Can Taiwan bring back the clouded leopard? Suki, a clouded leopard given by a German zoo to the Taipei Zoo in 2016. Among Paiwan people, who call the animal likuljaw, clouded leopard skins and teeth were reserved for tribal chiefs and senior nobles. Taiwanese officials (including those at the NTM) have yet to update how they categorize the local clouded leopard. What’s more, he says, we can’t be absolutely certain that what’s labeled as a Formosan clouded leopard in a museum was actually caught in Taiwan.

Source: Taipei Times March 24, 2026 17:15 UTC