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Tainan Municipal Bo Dong Elementary School (2014 CyberFair Project ID 7701)
Taiwan, Tainan City
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness

We estimate 7 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: The study is aimed to discuss the related issues of disaster prevention and conservation in Neopu Mudstone Area Soil and Water Conservation Park through a thorough inquiry into the past, the present, and the future of Neopu Mudstone Area in Long Qi Xiang in the district of Longci. In this study, we present the use of Literature review, field observation, and interviews with localists as analytical methods not only to set up the related basic information concerning the water and soil conservation,vegetation recovery, and ecological conservation for Neopu Mudstone Area, but also to offer our teams’ confusion and opinions about the ecological issues of Neopu Mudstone Area. We learn to be close to our environment and be part of our environment by actions, and express our views of environmental issues.

It is hoped that the results of this study could have considerable impact on rasing the awareness of the public about the water and soil conservation and ecological conservation of Mudstone Area. Moreover, the successful reconstuction on Neopu Mudstone Area will led to everyone to protect our environment.

Project Description: Neopu Mudstone Area, located at Lung-Hsing Community in the district of Longci in Tainan City, has been undergone erosion on the surface and washed out by the streams over the years, forming into infertile and bare mudstone and displacing alternatively between hills and valleys. In order to achieve multiple objective including the effect of water and soil conservation, decrease of downstream flood, maintaining the characteristics of this landscope, and advocating the environmental ecological education, Soil and Water Conservation Bureau has set stage diversion in the the Bi-Tzu-Gou Creek watershed to conduct water and soil conservation, such as building earth dams and embankments and establishing vigor on bare slopes. Together with the Longci District Office and community residents endeavor, not only the recreation facilities in Bi-Tzu-Gou Creek watershed, like pathways and pavilions, but also the construction of intergal environment of ecology, industry, and recreation , like ecologyhabitat and hydrophile space are completed to achieve the desired effect of disaster prevention, ecological conservation, near-natural landscape,and recreation, so as to reach a new mile stone after the exposing to form the vision with men peacefully co-existing with environment, attaining the goal of sustainable development and transforming the desolute surface as the Moon into an oasis full of vitality.

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