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Taichung Municipal Hui-Wen High School (2012 CyberFair Project ID 7064)
Taiwan,
Taichung City
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 10 student(s) from 16 to 17 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Gaomei Wetlands, the predecessors of the Gaomei beach during the period of Japan rule, are located in Qingshui District, Taichung City. They are connected to the Dajia River estuary in north and Cingshuei Drainage Canal in south. The wetlands here are over 300 hectares. Due to the exploitation of Taichung Harbor, the beach suffers accretions and attracts fewer tourists than before and finally is closed. now. However, with rich ecological resources and as a habitat for a wide variety of migratory birds, the beach arouses people's attentions again and has developed into the Gaomei Wetlands we know today.
There's not only estuarine mud flat but sandy beach in Gaomei Wetlands. Moreover it contains swamp ecosystem. Gaomei Wetlands nourishes complicated and rich wetlands ecosystem, including swamp, beach, muddy land,and so on. Wan Caoqu in Yunlin County, the biggest amount of population in Taiwan, forms a complicated landforms with both wet and dry. Because of the multiplicity of landforms, its species diversity is tremendous. It has a variety of benthos, fishes and shells. Most importantly, it's a important habitat for birds and grallatorial.
Project Description: The issue of environmental protection was considered more and more serious by the public, especially when the popular singer, Ching-tung Chaw, was shooting MV by burning the piano in Gaomei Wetlands in 2008. Three years later, we wonder if the Gaomei Wetlands still remains its precious status, and serves as a wildlife refuge in the present time. We also doubt, in the meantime, whether the Gaomei Wetlands is still suffering some ecology problems. Thus, we intend to visit this diversified wetland, figuring out the situations of protection, comparing the present with the past of Gaomei Wetlands, enumerating the regulations of this lands, and finally appealing to the people to care about and cherishing this land.