Kinmen National Park Headquarters, National Park Service promoted the "2023 year biological resource survey and long-term monitoring manpower training plan in the Nanbei Mountain intertidal zone", implemented by the local NGO group "Kinmen County Community Industry Revitalization Association" and invited experts and scholars in related fields to give lectures, planning monitoring methods of biological resources in the oyster fields in the Guningtou area and the Nanbei Mountain area and a series of workshop training courses to train local oyster farmers’ biological resource investigation capabilities.
This project invited Mr. Yang Ming-che, who teaches at Providence University and is also a postdoctoral researcher at Sun Yat-sen University, to assist in planning this year’s monitoring methods and training courses for oyster field biological resources. It also invited Hong Ching, the number one leader in intertidal biological observation in Kinmen,as well as Teacher Chang Bao-ren, who worked at the Fisheries Research Institute for a long time and was an important promoter of the establishment of the Stone Oyster Industry Cultural Center, Teacher Cheng Fan-pai who specializes in folk proverbs, and Teacher Ye Jun-pei who has in-depth research on folk rituals, etc. to jointly teach, promoting the Nanbei Mountain intertidal zone biological resources survey and long-term monitoring manpower training. Three training workshops were held for the first time on February 25, 26, and 27. In addition to teaching oyster farmers and community residents citizen scientific investigation methods, an indoor course “When folk sacrifices meet scientific tides” was also taught, and the oyster farmers jointly created the Nanbei Mountain oyster field map, the courses intensive and practical.
The Headquarters stated that this planned series of courses aims to establish a foundation for resource surveys in Guningtou, provide locals with the ability to independently monitor the ecological environment, increase understanding of the biological resources in the intertidal zone of Nanbei Mountain, and inherit the traditional culture in the Ningtou intertidal zone through records. It is expected to enhance citizen awareness and prompt them to engage in natural resource conservation. In the future, the community will also be able to provide a more in-depth experience when promoting stone oyster cultural eco-tourism, so as to allow the interzone biological resources and the environment that nurtured the local traditional stone oysters industry to be sustained.