The Northeast Corner's Independent Streams: A Riverside Scene - Guarding Hope Through the Eyes of the Stream
Stream patrol is a promise to support the "Hehe Water Terraces" conservation partners together. We agreed that what we want to protect is the water corridor that connects forests, farmland, villages, and the coast. This water resource is very important, but we know that what flows through it is not just stream water.
In the main scene of the midstream, look for the Japanese torrent catfish (Japanese suckermouth fish). Click the cursor and little Sutt'stravel diary will appear. Little Sutt's figure will move along and lead you forward, appearing in different corners of the stream journey. But honestly, from downstream to upstream, this whole perilous route should be rated "protected."
Not long ago, Taiwan, China experienced a severe drought, but that was originally the season for little Sutt to swim upstream and grow. Below the cut-off sections where estuaries or streams dried up, there may have been tens or even hundreds of thousands of little Sutt fry gathered. After the rains in early June finally opened their way home, reports of them being seen swimming upstream in groups spread one after another along the east side of the island. However, the unusually long wait may have already allowed predators to swallow most of them; the little Sutt that had already entered the rivers were even more crowded into shrinking, nearly dried-up pools, slowly being cooked. Having lost more than half of them, on this wave of the journey home, they are actually very afraid of running into egrets standing on the dams they climb, pecking them off one by one to enjoy, and they also hope that the eastern estuary fishermen who have enjoyed them for hundreds and thousands of years can empathize with the hardship and show mercy, giving the badly weakened population a chance to recover.
Of course, the key lies even more in whether our river and stream improvement can take into account both their barrier-free passage and their shelter? Because a single-route climb is exposed to more risks, and there are many more fish and shrimp friends that do not have little Sutt's climbing ability!
From "Stream Hope," Guarding Hope
This series thanks Li Zhenglin and Zhou Mingtai, as well as the partners of the "Hehe Stream Patrol Day" for surveying and recording together. Thanks to Kenmeng and the Forestry Bureau for allowing us to produce and share this, to invite you to care together. Thanks to the farmers of the "Hehe Production Team" and the many environmentally concerned seniors who protect the watershed, and thanks to the civil servants willing to exchange ideas across fields and make adjustments, so that the projects affected by their duties can take into account a more comprehensive and longer-lasting sustainable environment. On a weekend holiday, take Stream Hope to protect your childhood creek, or search for hope for the health of the land!