Working together to promote Meinong National Nature Park, preserving a forest for the children of our hometown
Plant for the insects to save their lives, plant for the birds to rest at night, plant for the sun to cast shadows and dance
Plant for the rain to turn around, plant for the riverbank to chat and cool off, plant for the south wind to blow in and sing mountain songs
–Lin Sheng-xiang, Zhong Yong-feng,
In an elementary school classroom,
In Meinong, there is also a "fantastic forest" that belongs to us.
Every year at the Yellow Butterfly Festival, we return here to gather as promised, to see whether this forest, once damaged by people's greed for private gain, has recovered to become healthier. At the second Meinong Yellow Butterfly Festival in 1996, we made a promise to the Yellow Butterfly Valley of an "ecological park" after 2000, we moved from resistance into a planned process, using work such as the promotion of "community forestry" to open up more diverse space for dialogue -- for eighteen years, our original intention and determination have never changed, advancing toward this dream in a relay race, one generation after another.
- A large stick insect living in the fantastic forest.
