生態教育

Every spring, the media reports on the famous kapok tree road(木棉道). The fiery colored kapok blossom filling the entire street is particularly eye-catching, and the road was chosen as one of the 15 most beautiful flower streets in the world.

Established in 2004, Taiwan Orchid Plantation(台灣蘭花生物科技園區) is the largest orchid industry greenhouse cluster in the world. The Taiwan International Orchid Show held every year February-March attracts people from the orchid industry from around the world to view the numerous orchids and discuss cooperation. It also brings in a large number of visitors who admire or buy the high-quality orchids grown in Taiwan. The Show has a different theme every year and also features exhibitions by the cultural and creative and refined agriculture industries.

Luzhugou Fishing Harbor(蘆竹溝漁港) is a little-known attraction in Beimen District. Nearby Jiangjun River, it faces two sandbars, Qingshangangshan and Xinbeiganshan. The water is clear and waves small in the harbor, making it ideal for oyster farming. Line after line of oyster rafts are reflected on the calm water. The pure white oyster shells piled up on the shore look very much like a pure white beach. Without looking carefully, you might not notice the egrets that live there.

Jing Zhai Jiao Tile Paved Salt Fields(井仔腳瓦盤鹽田) were Beimen's first salt fields, and the oldest remains of tile paved salt fields in existence, and feature beautiful art made from salt tiles that resemble mosaics. 2002 saw the end of 338 years of thriving salt industry at Jing Zhai due to the rising costs of labor, and the salt fields which used to cover this whole place were abandoned for a while.

Vanaheim Love Manor is located between the Pa Chang(八掌溪) and Jishui rivers(急水溪), and is the northernmost part of Tainan's seashore. Approximately 5 minutes from Nankunshen Datian Temple(南鯤鯓代天府), the site has a natural landscape and a rich ecology.

Wanpi World Safari Zoo (頑皮世界野生動物園) is a well-established, and currently the only zoo in Tainan. The care in looking after the animals and the management ethos make it a favorite destination among tourists. Just by walking in to the park you can feel the feeling of closeness with the animals. The macaws in the large entrance greet you by shaking and swaying their heads, and tourists get the opportunity to come into close contact with capybaras, giraffes and elephants under supervision of specialized zookeepers. This is a specialized zoo with ecological education as its core concept.

Find Dayuanshuai Temple(大元帥廟) in Jiangjun District(將軍區) and the Jiangjun River embankment can be seen. Stand on it, and you can see a large expanse of lush mangrove forest before you, stretching from the estuary of the Jiangjun River all the way inland, creating a magnificent sight. Mangrove forest is an important cradle for estuary ecology; a large number of egrets and other water birds live amongst the mangroves and various shallow water creatures such as fiddler crabs and mudskippers live under the water. The scene resembles an ecological paradise seen on National Geographic channel.

The new land formed by alluvial deposits in the Tsengwen River estuary has a rich estuary ecosystem, which attracts the black-faced spoonbills(黑面琵鷺), an internationally endangered species of bird. Every year at the end of September, black-faced spoonbills migrate from the north, and leave again the following March after spending winter at Xikou. The black-faced spoonbills wandering the shallows of fish pools and lagoons looking for food is a rare sight limited to the fall and winter seasons.

Qigu Salt Mountain (七股鹽山) is a popular scenic spot that has been widely reported in magazines and newspapers, its snow white peaks towering above the coast are a famous landmark of Qigu. For the last few years events have placed huge mascots on the salt mountain top, from the original fortune cat to an angel, and in recent years the adorable owl and penguin, etc. These mascots gave tourists the strength to climb the salt mountain, just seek to be able to get close to these adorable and huge mascots.

Qigu Lagoon(七股潟湖), known locally as Naihaizai(內海仔), is the remains of the Taijiang Inner Sea (台江內海) from over 300 years ago, and covers approximately 1,600 hectares. Riding the recreational fishing rafts across the lagoon is the best way to experience Qigu. Oyster sheds line the edges, with fishing nets set up and fishermen slowly rowing small canoes.