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The Diverse Faces of Taiwan’s Alpine Forests

2022March
More people have begun yearning to be closer to nature since COVID-19 became the new normal 2 years ago. Nature has a healing power that comforts the fatigue and anxiety of both body and mind. Taiwan enjoys a forest cover rate of nearly 60%, meaning if people are willing they can approach nature at any time. Investigations of travel trends have found that people are more willing to spend the effort to understand Taiwan’s animal and plant ecology as well as care about ecological issues in this era of living with the pandemic; therefore, national parks operating with the goal of ecological conservation have become the focus of the public’s travels.