NCUE has three ongoing projects and activities, including Environmental Education Centre’s ‘Project of Taoyuan International Airport Corporation / Entrusted Planning and Design for RIFA Control’, ‘120-Hour Courses for Environmental Education Personnel Certification’, and Biology Department’s ‘Discussion and Solution Strategies on the Ant Infestation Problems in the Qianshan Caused by the Impact of Climate Change on the Ecology of Qianshan and the Changes in the Community’. They are described briefly in the following section.

1. Project of Taoyuan International Airport Corporation / Entrusted Planning and Design for RIFA Control

Taoyuan International Airport is located in the Dayuan District. In 2004, Taoyuan International Airport determined that the area around Taoyuan Airport, the airport traffic lane, and some parts of the lawn that divide the running chute were invaded by the RIFA. The project team has achieved remarkable results after years of prevention and control work. The entire airport area has been lifted from the list of management by the government in May 2018. However, Taoyuan International Airport is located in the Dayuan District of Taoyuan City, and the current RIFA population distribution and density in Dayuan District are still relatively serious, Taoyuan International Airport is still in an area susceptible to RIFA recurrence. The goal of the project team is to continue to assist Taoyuan International Airport in the prevention and control of RIFA in the entire airport area, including the manpower planning and execution in the control and investigation field operations, planning for the types of prevention and control agents, method suggestion and execution, RIFA monitoring execution and control rate reporting, assistance in reports required by the competent authorities, and checking related matters on RIFA prevention and control. The project also assists Taoyuan Airport in organising the RIFA Education and Training Course, which trains 120 trainees each year.

Taoyuan Airport RIFA Education and Training Course

Link for reference information:

https://www.facebook.com/NCUEEEC/videos/a.1053897732014001/852916332256772

2. 120-Hour Courses for Environmental Education Personnel Certification for Environmental Education Centre

Conduct courses on agriculture, biodiversity, community management, etc.

Links to the FB page of the project:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=NCUEEEC&set=a.884217642315345

3. Project of the Division of Science and Technology: ‘Discussion and Solution Strategies on the Ant Infestation Problems in the Qianshan Caused by the Impact of Climate Change on the Ecology of Qianshan and the Changes in the Community’

Natural disasters on slopes arising from climate change and man-made development pressure have caused landscape fragmentation , ecological fragmentation, and habitat loss, causing slopes in Qianshan, Taiwan, an ecologically fragile area. Recently, ant infestation problems have emerged in Qianshan towns in south-central Taiwan. Ants pour into houses like streams, and flying ants infest homes like black mist. Such abnormal ecological responses are warnings that there is gradual loss of ecological health in Taiwan. This project thus integrates multiple domains. It takes the ant infestation problem of the Qianshan residents as the starting point to comprehensively examine the hidden landscape fragmentation, and ecological loss and development pressure behind the ant infestation problem. Using the ecosystem service on the slopes as the research framework, key biofacies in habitat are investigated, landscape changes analysed, indicators established, environmental fragility and ecological potential examined, etc. In addition, in response to the logic of the impact of the ant infestation problem on the industry and tourism in the mountain village communities, a Qianshan agricultural production system with potential for ecosystem services and human well-being are established taking climate change as the background. Briefing sessions are held with local governments, communities, farmers, and people in the homestay industry.

In the Liugui District, Kaohsiung City, a prevention and control briefing session was held with officials of the Agricultural Bureau, councillors, district chief of village, community directors, farmers, and people in the homestay industry

Link for reference information:

https://www.facebook.com/NCUEEEC/photos/a.1053897732014001/1053901572013617

   SDG15.2.4 Educational programmes on ecosystems

SDG15.3.1 Sustainable use, conservation and restoration of land