scholarly journals Residents' attitudes toward reintroduced sika deer in Kenting National Park, Taiwan

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shih-Ching Yen ◽  
Kuang-Hsun Chen ◽  
Ying Wang ◽  
Cheng-Ping Wang
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Sika Deer ◽  
Residents Attitudes ◽  
Kenting National Park

Autumn Migration of Diurnal Raptors Across Kenting National Park, Taiwan, Along the East-Asian Oceanic Flyway

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao-Chieh Chen ◽  
Jing-Guo Lin ◽  
Yu-Jung Cheng ◽  
Ta-Chih Chen ◽  
Jo-Szu Tsai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Early Afternoon ◽  
Southern Taiwan ◽  
Migratory Strategies ◽  
Kenting National Park ◽  
Paired T Test ◽  
Southward Migration ◽  
Observation Period

ABSTRACT Diurnal raptors were counted during their southward migration in autumn of 2019 at Kenting National Park, southern Taiwan, an important hawkwatch site along the East-Asian Oceanic Flyway. Observations were conducted from 1 September to 31 October 2019 in the morning hours, but the observation period was extended to 1400 H whenever large numbers of raptors passed the site before noon. A total of 329,559 individuals of 14 migratory raptor species was recorded. The Chinese Sparrowhawk (Accipiter soloensis) and Gray-faced Buzzard (Butastur indicus) made up 78.3% (257,971 birds) and 21.6% (71,045 birds) of the total, respectively. The number of Chinese Sparrowhawks increased significantly when we extended the survey duration from 1200 H to 1400 H (paired t-test, t = 2.44, P = 0.04), but the number of Gray-faced Buzzards did not (t = 1.94, P = 0.09). Thus, Chinese Sparrowhawks may continue passing the site en route to the Philippine Islands in the afternoon hours, whereas Gray-faced Buzzards usually stop migrating in early afternoon, at least under certain conditions. How prevailing wind conditions along the East-Asian Oceanic Flyway in autumn shape the different migratory strategies of these two hawk species requires further study.

scholarly journals Using Internet Surveys to Estimate Visitors’ Willingness to Pay for Coral Reef Conservation in the Kenting National Park, Taiwan

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Maynard ◽  
Pierre-Alexandre Château ◽  
Lauriane Ribas-Deulofeu ◽  
Je-Liang Liou
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
National Park ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Local Conservation ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Conservation Action ◽  
Kenting National Park ◽  
Coral Reef Conservation

Without appropriate conservation action, coral reefs globally continue to degrade, causing declines in economic value. Therefore, their local conservation and quantifying its benefits become increasingly important. However, accurately measuring these values remains expensive or complicated. Leveraging digital survey tools, an interdisciplinary on-line survey was created to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for coral reef conservation using pictures and ecological data. Using the contingent valuation method we estimate current values as well as changes in value due to restoration or degradation for coral ecosystems in the Kenting National Park (KNP) in Taiwan. Results suggest that conserving degraded coral reef ecosystems leads to larger gains in value than healthier ones. Average WTP estimates a non-market economic value of 680 million US$ per year for the whole KNP marine area. Despite potential self-reporting bias and limits on sample size, these values appear consistent with similar studies and suggest future economic sampling strategies for KNP.

scholarly journals Study on the Appraisal of Tourism Demands and Recreation Benefits for Nanwan Beach, Kenting, Taiwan

Environments ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Ming Dong ◽  
Chien-Chi Lin ◽  
Shu-Ping Lin
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Income Elasticity ◽  
Consumer Surplus ◽  
Poisson Model ◽  
Distribution Model ◽  
Travel Cost Method ◽  
Endogenous Stratification ◽  
Recreation Benefits ◽  
Kenting National Park

This study implemented a questionnaire survey on tourists to the Nanwan Beach, Kenting, Taiwan and then applied the travel cost method to appraise the recreation benefits of the Nanwan Beach. The truncated Poisson model (TPOIS), truncated negative binomial distribution model, and on-site Poisson model were applied in view of the errors caused by truncated samples and endogenous stratification, and the results indicated that: (1) The on-site Poisson model was more suitable than the other two models for estimating the recreation benefits of Nanwan; (2) the three recreational benefit indicators (consumer surplus, compensation variation, and equivalent variation) estimated using the TPOIS model were all significantly greater than those of the on-site Poisson model; (3) the on-site Poisson model estimated the price elasticity and income elasticity of the tourism demands for Nanwan as −0.329 and 0.187, respectively; and (4) on the basis of the on-site Poisson model, the consumer surplus for Nanwan was NT$9639 (approximately US$289) per person per visit, and the annual gross recreation benefits were approximate NT$8.022 billion. The results are expected to provide a valuable reference for management and planning policies of the Kenting National Park.

scholarly journals Coral Reef Resilience in Taiwan: Lessons from Long-Term Ecological Research on the Coral Reefs of Kenting National Park (Taiwan)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shashank Keshavmurthy ◽  
Chao-Yang Kuo ◽  
Ya-Yi Huang ◽  
Rodrigo Carballo-Bolaños ◽  
Pei-Jei Meng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reefs ◽  
National Park ◽  
Seawater Temperature ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Thermal Environments ◽  
Coral Reef Resilience ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research ◽  
Kenting National Park ◽  
Over Time

Coral reefs in the Anthropocene are being subjected to unprecedented levels of stressors, including local disturbances—such as overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution—and large-scale destruction related to the global impacts of climate change—such as typhoons and coral bleaching. Thus, the future of corals and coral reefs in any given community and coral-Symbiodiniaceae associations over time will depend on their level of resilience, from individual corals to entire ecosystems. Herein we review the environmental settings and long-term ecological research on coral reefs, based on both coral resilience and space, in Kenting National Park (KNP), Hengchun Peninsula, southern Taiwan, wherein fringing reefs have developed along the coast of both capes and a semi-closed bay, known as Nanwan, within the peninsula. These reefs are influenced by a branch of Kuroshio Current, the monsoon-induced South China Sea Surface Current, and a tide-induced upwelling that not only shapes coral communities, but also reduces the seawater temperature and creates fluctuating thermal environments which over time have favoured thermal-resistant corals, particularly those corals close to the thermal effluent of a nuclear power plant in the west Nanwan. Although living coral cover (LCC) has fluctuated through time in concordance with major typhoons and coral bleaching between 1986 and 2019, spatial heterogeneity in LCC recovery has been detected, suggesting that coral reef resilience is variable among subregions in KNP. In addition, corals exposed to progressively warmer and fluctuating thermal environments show not only a dominance of associated, thermally-tolerant Durusdinium spp. but also the ability to shuffle their symbiont communities in response to seasonal variations in seawater temperature without bleaching. We demonstrate that coral reefs in a small geographical range with unique environmental settings and ecological characteristics, such as the KNP reef, may be resilient to bleaching and deserve novel conservation efforts. Thus, this review calls for conservation efforts that use resilience-based management programs to reduce local stresses and meet the challenge of climate change.

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