Origin
Mr. Yueh-Hui Chen is a very qualified and
professional bird guide. It is hoped that this interview can understand
the current situation of Huajiang Wild Duck Nature Park.
Interview
1.How long have you been serving as a volunteer at the Wild Bird Society of Taipei?
I joined the Wild Bird Society of Taipei in 1978.
At that time, a friend living in my neighborhood was a volunteer of the
Wild Bird Society of Taipei. When I heard that there were some Wild
Ducks migrating in Huajiang, I came to watch birds with him. Since
then, I joined the Wild Bird Society of Taipei, and have been serving
as a volunteer till now.
2.What qualifications and training do I need to be a volunteer?
First of all, you must be elder than 20 and have some
basic knowledge of birds if you want to be a member of the Wild Bird
Society of Taipei. One year after joining the Wild Bird Society of
Taipei, you will join the training for tour guide and commentator, and
after passing the class practice to approval, you will be officially
issued a tour guide certificate on the Wild Bird Society of Taipei
member conference by the next year.
3.What should I do before the tour?
You should be familiar with the ecology, routes and
environment of birds, and you should go to see how others guide and
explain them. After a period of training, your skills and your
enthusiasm for birds will become stronger and stronger. Of course, you
do not necessarily to be a narrator, you can also be a member of a
research team member responsible for bird surveys.
4.What is the most interesting part of the guided tour?
Because we use quite a lot of 3C products now, we hope to
be able to get out of the outdoors and get more exposure to some green
plant environment, so that our eyes can get a proper rest. In addition,
we can improve bird knowledge and understanding of the ecological
environment by going outside. It is also hoped to protect these
wetlands by understanding the ecological environment.
5.How to introduce Wild Duck Nature Park to the public?
Huajiang Wild Duck Nature Park mostly has water
birds, most of which are winter migratory birds and water birds.
However, after the wetlands have hardened, the number of water birds
has become less and less. Birds are an indicator of the natural
environment. When the environment is good, there will be more migratory
birds coming in. After the environment has deteriorated, these
migratory birds will be gone. Therefore, more than 10,000 teals in the
past decreased to only about 60 teals at present. The total number of
water birds has become quite small, indicating the habitat has
gradually deteriorated.
6.What do you personally feel about bird watching?
I hope that through our observation of birds, we
can let the people have some understanding about birds. Sometimes we
will feel powerless. When we take you to see the changes in the
environment, you will feel very powerless, because the municipal
government does not pay much attention to the ecological environment we
live in. Therefore, it depends on us, and other enthusiastic people to
explain the changes in the environment, so that they can work hard for
the environmental they live in. |
