Conclusa la visita a Taiwan per il progetto di cooperazione italo-taiwanese su ecosistemi montani e biodiversità
The National Research Council (CNR) research team’s visit to Taiwan has concluded as part of the Italy-Taiwan bilateral collaboration project dedicated to the study of mountain ecosystems and biodiversity conservation (Conservation and Restoration of Ecosystem Services for Promoting Biodiversity: A Critical Zone Perspective to Compare Italy and Taiwan Mountain Study Sites).
The delegation is composed of experts from two departments, CNR-DSU and CNR-DSSTTA, and four research institutes: CNR-IIA, CNR-IGG, CNR-IRET and CNR-IRCrES.
The following are some highlights from the visit.
In Taipei, Researchers visited the Department of Geography at NTU. Here, they met with the Director and other researchers and they continued at the 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐚𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦, which collects soil samples from all over Taiwan.
Visit to a tea plantation in Pinglin, near Taipei. In the pictures the tea flower, a tea tasting, and the group.
At the Xitou Nature Education Center they visited the cloud forest and bamboo forest with researchers Herlin Chien and Chung-I Chen. They then moved on to the Fenghuang Nature Education Area, hosted by Dr. Sen-Sung Cheng, an NTU associate, where they visited organic tea and coffee fields.
Visit to the Errfong irrigation system under the valuable guidance of prof. Ting, who dedicated his life to this opera. Then concluded with a meeting at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology with Prof. Wu, head of the NPUST Forestry Department, the faculty and students.
The CNR researchers ( Lisa Sella, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐨, 𝐆𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐳𝐳𝐚) would like to express their heartfelt gratitude for the very warm welcome they received from their Taiwanese colleagues Dr Herlin Chien, Dr Chung-I Chen and Prof (River) Jr-Chuan Huang during this intense week of exchange.