From 10,000 to 30,000! Changhua Bagua Mountain overthrows the falcon culture and creates the legend of Eagle Yang

Thanks to the joint efforts of conservation units and local governments to transform the Bagua Mountains, the number of gray-faced buzzards passing through has increased from 10,000 to more than 30,000.

Changhua Bagua Mountain used to be a hotspot for hunting gray-faced buzzards (also known as South Road Eagles). For more than ten years, the Bagua Mountain Ecological Visitor Center has cooperated with the Bird Club, the government and local non-governmental organizations to promote the "Eagle Yang Bagua" eagle watching activity, turning falconry culture into a conservation action. The number of hawks crossing the border has increased from 10,000 in the past to more than 30,000 in recent years, creating more than 15 million yuan in tourism value every year. Today (9th), it was awarded an excellent award in the "Environmental Education Facilities and Sites Assessment" by the Ministry of Environment, recognizing its efforts in ecological conservation.

The Shanshan National Scenic Area Management Office of the Tourism Administration of the Ministry of Transport pointed out that when gray-faced buzzards return north every spring, large numbers of birds fly over the Bagua Mountains. In the past, their survival was threatened by hunting. In order to reverse the falconry culture, the Shanshan National Scenic Area Management Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Changhua County Government, the Bird Club, Daye University and local communities continue to promote ecological conservation and through the "Eagle Yang Bagua" series of activities, attract the public into the mountains and forests to learn about raptors, turning the former falconry hotspot into an eagle watching destination.

In order to make environmental education more relevant to the people and the times, the Bagua Mountain Ecological Visitor Center has actively upgraded its software and hardware in recent years, designed a graded course for "Visiting the Flying Feather World of Bagua Mountain", and introduced digital technologies such as AR dress-up and VR eagle eye experience, allowing visitors to experience the vision of eagles soaring in the sky through virtual reality. Eagle watching is no longer just about looking up at birds, but also a deeper understanding of the ecology.

In addition, the Mountaineering Department also launched the "Remote Environmental Education Train" to bring the concept of conservation into campus, expand the participation of senior citizens and disadvantaged groups, implement social responsibility (ESG), and make Bagua Mountain an ecological classroom without walls.

Cao Zhongyou, director of the mountaineering department, said that the Baguashan Ecological Visitor Center once again won the Excellence Award in the "Environmental Education Facilities and Sites Evaluation" of the Ministry of Environment. In addition to winning the Global Top 100 Green Destinations Story Award and the National Environmental Education Award this year, it has won three recognitions in succession. In the future, it will add immersive experience facilities, expand environmental education in conjunction with local schools, and continue to promote ecological tourism.