Niaosong Wetland Park

Educational Promotion Activities

Lectures of Ecology promotion	Guided Tours on Ecology	Ecological Commentaries at Fixed Points
Creative DIY Activities & Illustrated Books Making	Educational Development Courses	Unscheduled Activities

　　Niaosong Wetland Park not only gives visitors a place to appreciate the beauty of insects, plants, and birds, but also offers different activities every Sunday, and sentinel commentaries on Monday and Thursday as well, providing the visitors with a variety of information and holding regular lectures on ecology. Besides several DIY courses, other activities like Mama telling illustrated book stories and professional guided commentaries are also available. Group reservations are accepted and can be customized.

Lectures of Ecology Promotion

Time: The 1st Sunday of every month from 15:30pm to 17:00pm

Location: Niaosong Wetland Park Nature Center

Lecture 1: The Relationship between Birds and Human Lives

Activity content: Birds and human lives are closely related. Chickens, ducks, and geese give human beings meat, and their feathers can further be made into clothing. In physical life, birds can fly and have better adaptation to habitation choice, making them suitable to serve as an environmental indicator to evaluate our living conditions. Besides these, are there any other intimate terms existing between birds and human lives?

Lecture 2: The Relationship between plants and Human Lives

Activity content: Human beings’ making use of plants can be traced back to a very long time ago in the history. Carbonized wheat, barley, and other crop seeds have been found in archaeological excavation objects in Mesopotamia. Over the time, human dependency on plants is becoming much more various. Every phase of human life, food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, and music, has something to do with plants.

Lecture 3: The Relationship between insects and Human Lives

Activity content: The use of insects, whether they are used as medicinal material or food, is directly related to human lives. Their adaptation to the surroundings and anatomical structures even lead to the invention of electronic insects to the well-being of human lives. The “honey bees disappearance” incident manifests the problem of ecological imbalance. It is said that when all the bees are wiped out from the earth, only four years are left to humans. Is it true? We should all get together and have a better understanding.

Guided Tours on Ecology

Time: Sundays from 15:30pm to 17:00pm

Location: Assemble in front of Niaosong Wetland Park Nature Center

Activity content: The purpose of guided tours on ecology is to equip visitors to the Park with some clear knowledge of plants, birds, insects, amphibians, etc. Our professional commentary staff not only leads visitors around the Park thoroughly explaining, but also answers any questions asked during the tour.

Reflections on Actually Doing Tour Guiding:

It is very rare that we have a wetland with such rich ecological resources in this hustling bustling modern city. In the process of the interviews, we really gain very valuable knowledge about the history and development of Niaosong Wetland Park, realizing that living beings in the Park are quite abundant. In addition to visitors coming for guided tours on ecology, not a few come here to take a walk, have a chat, and relax. Hopefully, through our promotion, we can make the Park much more popular, so that much more people can gain more knowledge on Niaosong Wetland Park.

Ecological Commentaries at Fixed Points

Time: Monday and Thursday from 08:30am to 11:30am

Location: Duck Watching Platform (the commentary platform on the right side trail of Nature Center)

Activity Content: Experienced volunteer of the Park Mr. Chungan, Lin holds regular and scheduled on-the-site lectures on the ecological species of plants and insects, and so on. He also instructs visitors to admire the beautiful images of birds via telescopes.

Creative DIY Activities & Illustrated Books Making

Time: The 3rd Sunday of every month from 15:30pm to 17:00pm

Location: Niaosong Wetland Park Nature Center

Activity Content: Through the activity, children are instructed by professional instructors, learning to create their own masterpieces by making good use of handy and eco-friendly materials and their creativity and imagination as well.

Niaosong Wetland Park Educational Development Courses

Location: Niaosong Wetland Park Nature Center

Note: Every course can gold up to 20 persons. These are paid courses. Sign up and pay the fee to the Park staff or Kaohsiung Wild Bird Society.

Course: Insect Observation Sharing

Activity Content: The known insects in Taiwan are over 20,000 species. Though small in area, the Park’s recorded insects are over 250 species. The ecology here is so abundant that new species are continuously found and recorded. Welcome to the Park to appreciate the charming of the insect world here!

Introduction of Other Unscheduled Activities :

Activity 1: Parents and Children Transplanting Rice Seedlings

Enrollment: 20 persons

Note: Loose long-sleeved clothing and rain boots are recommended. (Please inform us if you don’t have rain boots yourselves.)

Activity Content: This activity endows the visitors with the joy of getting close to the earth. With the back bending, they insert bunches of rice seedlings into the earth, not only experiencing the hard work of “living at the mercy of elements,” but also learning something about the insect ecology in the rice paddies. Doing this, they can really admire the earth’s energetic life force. They will receive class session before moving to the open. Then they will do the planting in the “instruction pond.” During the process, lectures on aquatic creatures and insects are also given, which really draw the children to the earth.

Activity 2: Bird-watching Camp—Admiring Green Embroidered Eyes

Activity Content: Flying and circling in the air, the elf-like wild birds are the most often seen little animals in our daily lives. Want to see what these flying elves with colorful feathers are like and explore their secret lives? Encourage your children to sign up to the camp NOW!

　Source of Information: Adapted and Sorted out from the Interview Draft

　Source of Pictures: Self-shot Pictures