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The Qingshui Wetlands, located in Jinshan District in New Taipei City, was the first stop of migrating birds arriving in Taiwan for the winter. However, due to raising land prices in recent years and unreasonable farming income half of the farmlands covering over 100 hectares have been abandoned in the Qingshui Wetlands.
At the end of 2007, a family of four red-crowned cranes arrived in Jinshan for the winter. The farmers were worried that the land will be classified as important national wetlands and they began to protest. Jinshan, a small town rich in culture, was on the edge of being divided.
Only in the winter of 2014, when a Siberian white crane traveled thousands of miles to the area, was hope found. The local farmers agreed to provide fallow farmlands. Ecological subsidies and guaranteed purchasing prices were provided to ensure the farmer’s income. This successfully allowed the area of eco-friendly farms to expand from 0.5 hectares to more than 3 hectares. These actions also further promoted the "Jinshan Initiative," which is in line with the spirit of the “Satoyama Initiative.”
When conservation is in conflict with the livelihood of local residents, is it necessary for one side to be sacrificed? The episode interviews Liao Ren-Hui, Chairperson of Spring Thunder Environmental Society, Taiwan, to talk about the Jinshan Initiative. The episode talks about how they used eco-friendly farming as the basis for local industrial developments and leads the audience on an educational tour of the wetlands.
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