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Kaohsiung Municipal Kaohsiung Senior High School (2004 CyberFair Project ID 3301)
Taiwan, Kaohsiung City
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness

We estimate 5 student(s) from 15 to 16 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Kaohsiung Metropolitan Park is situated on the borderline of Kaohsiung County and Kaohsiung City near Ho-Chieng stream. It’s about 30-minute ride from the Kaohsiung train station. The park is a botanical garden with distinctive flora and forest. Besides, it’s a multi-function park. The plants, animals and the large playground, making the field an ideal place for people to do leisure activities, tourism as well as to show a model of a successful environmental education.

Project Description: The old, disused Hsi-Cheng-Pu landfill has been changed into Taiwan’s first Metropolitan Park built from used landfill. With the whole plan organized by both the Construction and Planning Agency of the Ministry of Interior and Department of Environment Protection of Kaohsiung City, the foul mess and dirty atmosphere in the area has been replaced by clear sight and fresh air. Also, the dangerous marsh gas resulted from a large pile of wastes has been colleted to generate electric power. Now let’s take a closer look at and learn more about this marvelous New Paradise of Kaohsiung!!

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