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addition to its responsibility for reseaching the rearing, breeding,
propagation and cultivation of endemic species and for managing the
Institute's experimental stations, Division of Management also conducts
research into the collection and preservation of genotype material
from Taiwan's endemic species, the first aid treatment of wild animals,
and the management of insects and their biocontrols.
To meet conservation research needs TESRI is laying out an Ecology Education Park consisting of 3.5 hectare site behlind the Institute's headquarters. The park is divided into nine areas: an autumn color area, an economic plants area, a pond ecology area, a river ecology area, a grassland ecology area, a bee plants area, a grassy marshland ecology area, an evergreen broad-leaved forest area and an artificially-planted woodland and acclimation area. Thus the park will demonstrate three ecosystem types: forest, grassland and wetland. Once completed, the park will not only serve the needs of the Institute's own staff for research into habitat improvement and management, but will also support the work of the Institute's Education Center by providing an outloor ecology education site for the general public, students and schoolchildren.
On 22 December 1993, the Institute established a Wildlife First Aid Station, to give emergency veterinary treatment and nursing care to wild animals which are injured or fall ill in the wild. Wild species which the station has treated since it began operating include the Formosan black bear, the Formosan Reeve's muntjac, the Formosan pangolin, the Formosan ferret-badger, the lepopard cat, Swinhoe's blue pheasant and the Formosan blue magpie. Animals which recover sufficiently after treatment are released back into the wild. The station provides treatment to nonartificially-reared wild animals. Members of the public who discover wild animals in need of urgent treatment can bring them to the station directly or contact it service line on (049) 2761331 or 2761258.
To improve the conservation of wild species,
the Division of Management is currently conducting numerous experimental
and management research projects including a survey of epidemic
disease among wild animals; management of insects and their biocontrols
at the Low Altitude Experimental Station; research into the genetic
characteristics of blood serum proteins in wild mammals; and establishing
a system for identifying products derived from wild animals. |
Ecology
Education Park