Million-year-old fossil shell bed education plan

Close to 180 teachers and students from Xingang Junior High School recently participated in “Guogang Fossil Shell Bed Environmental Education Program,” a joint collaboration between Miaoli Environmental Protection Bureau (苗栗縣環境保護局) and Miao Natural Ecological Society (苗栗縣自然生態學會). Arriving at Houlong’s Cape of Good Hope, participants learned all about Guogang Fossil Shell Bed and listened to a teacher-guided explanation of the area’s rich local history and natural ecology. During the day, teachers and students did their bit in trying to protect the local environment by helping to pick up garbage along the way. 

Formed around 1.2 million years ago, Guogang Fossil Shell Bed is one of only two national-level landscapes in Miaoli providing conclusive evidence that Taiwan emerged from the seabed due to movement in the Earth's tectonic plates. What’s more, it is also a superb place for people to get close to the natural landscape. Unfortunately, with the area under threat from constant illegal excavations, the organizers hope that environmental education will help urge the public to cherish these precious natural landscape resources.

Million-year-old fossil shell bed education plan 

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百萬年淬鍊的貝化石層環教計畫

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苗栗縣環境保護局結合苗栗縣自然生態學會，在後龍鎮舉辦「過港貝化石層環境教育計畫」，邀請新港國中等多校師生近180人，到好望角瞭解過港貝化石層的形成歷史，並聽取導覽老師解說在地人文以及大自然生態的奧妙。除此之外，師生們也一路淨山淨灘，愛護環境。

「過港貝化石層」形成的年代約在一百二十萬年前，是苗栗縣內唯二的國家級地景，為證明台灣是經由板塊運動而從海底冒出來的最有力證據，也是民眾親近自然地景的最佳去處，但是盜挖情形不斷，所以主辦單位希望透過環境教育，呼籲民眾保護愛惜珍貴的地景資源。