SDG14.3.3 Maintain ecosystems and their biodiversity (direct work)
NCUE has at least two planned activities to maintain and expand existing plant and animal ecosystems and their biodiversity, especially threatened ecosystems. They include the Environmental Education Centre’s ‘Fangyuan Reengineering USR Seed Programme’, ‘Engaging Fangyuan and Dacheng: Industrial and Environmental Sustainability for Changhua’s Twin Towns’ in 2020–2022 and ‘24-, 33-, and 120-hour courses for certification of environmental education personnel’ and the Science Education Centre’s ‘Teachers’ Outdoor Ecological and Fishery Teaching Enhancement Event: Research and Study Activities in the Budai Coastal Wetland Ecological Park’. They will be discussed in detail below:
1. Fangyuan Reengineering USR Seed Programme and Sprouting Programme for Engaging Fangyuan and Dacheng: Industrial and Environmental Sustainability for Changhua’s Twin Towns in 2020–2022:
This includes the following research projects: In collaboration with Changhua Aquaculture Association, we will screen the heat-resistant and beneficial bacteria Bdellovibrionaceae in Taiwan’s coastal areas, and screen the common vibrio, including Vibrio alginolyticus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and Vibrio vulnificus, which can control and inhibit the most common human and marine organisms and aquaculture in Taiwan’s coastal areas.
April 2021: Bdellovibrionaceae were collected in field water for heat-resistant strain screening. Six people participated in the activity.
Programme activities FB fan page link: https://www.facebook.com/NCUEUSR/photos/?tab=album&ref=page_internal
2. 24-, 33-, and 120-hour courses for certification of environmental education personnel
Supplementing the “Program for Engaging Fangyuan and Dacheng: Industrial and Environmental Sustainability for Changhua’s Twin Towns,” the Environmental Education Center provides education courses for communities in the local areas and across the country from September to November 2021. The courses included the following: the Special Environmental Personnel Certificate Course for Yuhua Elementary School in August 2021 for training 36 environmental education personnel; 33–hour Environmental Education Personnel Certificate Course in September 2021 for training 31 environmental education personnel; and 120–hour Environmental Education Personnel Training Course from September to November 2021 for training 13 environmental education personnel.
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Special Environmental Personnel Certificate Distance Course for Yuhua Elementary School
A class of the 33–hour Environmental Education Personnel Certificate Course
Students of the 120–hour Environmental Education Personnel Training Course attended a class conducted at the Formosan Rock Macaque Center.
Links to the videos of the course are as follows: