Driftwood from typhoon brings a fresh touch to Taipei Zoo
Driftwood from typhoon brings a fresh touch to Taipei Zoo
2024-10-10
A shipment of new furniture has arrived at Taipei Zoo. And it’s thanks to an unlikely benefactor: Typhoon Gaemi! Following the recent typhoon, the zoo got in touch with Yilan County, and asked if it could receive some logs thrown up by the storm. Yilan Forestry officials sprang into action, to collect flotsam and jetsam from the county’s beaches and riverbanks. Now the driftwood they collected can be seen at Taipei Zoo, bringing a fresh atmosphere to the enclosures of many different animals.
An otter wriggles around on a log, in constant motion. Others use a log as a bed: and they don’t feel like getting up in the morning. These logs are all driftwood, blown up onto the banks of rivers by the recent typhoon.
The driftwood is a great upgrade to the furniture of these animals at Taipei Zoo in Muzha. The white rhinos are using it to scratch and sharpen their horns. The panda here turns it into a climbing frame. Who knew a log had so many uses?
Chen Kuan-wei
Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Yilan Branch
Taipei Zoo reached out to get in touch with us. They wanted to use some natural materials, in their artificial environments. These logs are very good for the animals to interact with; they’re a natural resource.
The riverbanks and beaches of Yilan were covered with flotsam and jetsam after Typhoon Gaemi passed by. Taipei Zoo got in touch with the Yilan branch of the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency as well as the county government. The three agencies worked together to get these logs into the zoo and make the animals’ living spaces a little bit natural.
Chen Kuan-wei
Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Yilan Branch
For this project, we worked with Yilan County government, and got driftwood from Keng-fang Fishing Harbor, as well as Ta-hsi Fishing Harbor and all the way from Donggang. So far, for this first round of the project we have transported about 50 logs to the zoo.
The logs can be seen at the zoo in many different enclosures across five zones of the zoo, including the Africa Zone, the Rainforest Zone, and the Panda Pavilion.
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宜蘭漂流木打撈再利用 變身動物園水獺"樹穴"
2024-10-10
上回凱米颱風後，宜蘭多處河口及海邊，出現大量漂流木，林業署及宜蘭縣府打撈後，挑選出50支、長約3到5公尺的枝幹，運往台北市立動物園，經過加工整理後，搖身變成水獺的樹穴、熊貓的爬架，讓動物們愛不釋手。
這隻水獺，在木頭上蹭呀蹭，小小身軀不斷扭動。這隻水獺，則把木頭當作床，睡到不想離開。這些木頭，其實都是颱風過境後，河床上的漂流木。
看似無用的漂流木，卻幫木柵動物園裡，小動物們的家升級了。白犀牛用來抓癢、磨角；大熊貓這，變成爬架，一根漂流木，多種用途。
[[林業保育署宜蘭分署經營企劃科技正 陳冠瑋]]
“因為木柵動物園，他就是有來主動聯繫，他們除了一些人造的環境之外，他們也希望有一些自然的素材，那木頭其實本身就是一個，很好跟牠們互動的，一個天然的一個資源這樣子”
上回凱米颱風過後，宜蘭的河口及海岸，出現大量漂流木，台北市立動物園，隨即聯繫林業保育署宜蘭分署及宜蘭縣政府。三方合作，為動物們提供，更接近自然的生活環境。
[[林業保育署宜蘭分署經營企劃科技正 陳冠瑋]]
“那我們這一次就是跟宜蘭縣政府，從他們的梗枋漁港，大溪漁港，然後一直看到這邊的，東港地區的漂流木，目前來講第一批就是，已經先運大概50根的漂流木，回到動物園做整理”
漂流木創造全新價值，讓包括非洲區、雨林區、貓熊館等5個區域的小動物們，有了新傢具。
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