英文摘要 |
Since the year of 2003, Lin-Mei community has been involving in community forestry through manpower training, resource investigation, green landscaping, environmental interpretation planning, nature trails, the forest resource management, and even the operation of ecotourism. There are the preliminary results so far for all works above mention. Through in-depth interview on community leaders, on the societal level: Community has accumulated experience in community building, the organization has clear regulation, and pay attention to the welfare for the elderly and students. The community hold activities with the school resources nearby to inherit community culture, and they solve any problem by way of democratic institutions. On the economic level: the main source of community income are from resource recycling, interpretation service, style meals, and kumquat products, etc. On the ecological level: there are 86% of forest area in the community which have abundant ecological resources. When the nature trail were to start using, the concepts of correct conservation were inspired in community, and stared to make advocacy for visitors in the meanwhile. After observation records and a questionnaires survey, the outcome showed about 29 million tourists visiting the Nature trail in Lin-Mei community in a year. It also showed that men are slightly more than women, and mostly young adults from the northern region among the tourists. The consumption there averages 1,500 NT dollars per person for one day ride. If according to the amount of annual visitors, Lin-Mei community produces local value about 400 million. Tourists respond their high satisfaction in landscape maintenance, interpretation facilities, viewing platforms and trails with ecological engineering methods by using natural materials. With regard to the ecotourism cognition, most visitors agree to implementing dynamic total mass control for nature trail, and around 71% of them are willing to pay within 20 NT dollars to 30 NT dollars. This shows that most tourists have perceived the importance of nature conservation and sustainable development. |