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Construction and Planning

V. National Parks Management and Environmental Conservation

1. National Park Operations and Management
The National Park is an area defined by the national government to protect biodiversity and specific

scenic and historical sites, as well as to provide for public recreation and research. The National Park
Law was promulgated in 1972 in Taiwan, and currently there are nine National Parks and one National
Nature Park: Kenting, Yushan, Yangmingshan, Taroko, Shei-Pa, Kinmen, Dongsha Atoll, Taijiang

and South Penghu Marine National Park, and Shoushan National Nature Park. The National Park
Headquarters are under the administration of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI), and are responsible for
the effective management and conservation of park assets.

(1) Kenting National Park (KTNP)

The 4rd Overall Plan Review of Kenting National Park had finished all modification cases from
people’s opinions since 2015. The overall review draft has been through 6 times of National Park

Committee by December 22, 2017 and expect to improve both the benefit of conservation and the
rights of resident. According to the country-owned real estate regulation, Houwan recreation area and
crab conservation issue had an agreement to exchange the land use to protect the crabs’ habitats.
The new parking area is available in Baisha recreation area, and KTNP improves the disabled access

of Longluan Lake and Southernmost tip of Taiwan. KTNP improves the new equipment in Houbihu
harbor and rebuilds the park road and trails in Sheding Nature Park. KTNP keeps improving the sewage
treatment facilities in South Bay and Kenting, to reduce the impact of tourism sewage to the ocean
ecosystem. KTNP first found Green sea turtle nesting on Kenting beach and succeeding in hatching 27

turtles. KTNP had saved 55 wildlife animals: 24 protected wild animals, 19 mammals, and 26 birds. KTNP

▲ KTNP won the National Environmental Education Awards ▲ To implement traffic control to protect land crab

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