by SAVE International

Faculty and students from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at U.C. Berkeley and National Taiwan University have been developing a plan for the Chiku area of coastal Tainan County in Taiwan. But their work is pitted against a petrochemical plant that requires filling one of the last lagoons in Taiwan, diverting water from other watersheds, and will likely send the most rare and endangered black-faced spoonbill into an inescapable extinction vortex. This report is an attempt at outlining a sustainable development strategy for this sensitive region.