Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/19
By: Wu Hsin-yun and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Dec. 19 (CNA) Environmental protection advocates asked President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) Tuesday to help with efforts to protect several-millennium-old algal reefs on the coastline of Taoyuan in northern Taiwan from harm by a natural gas terminal construction project.

Members of several environmental protection groups, headed by Taoyuan Local Union Director-General Pan Chong-cheng (潘忠政), issued the call at a press conference in Taipei, in which they presented over 4,300 postcards on the issue addressed to Tsai.

Last month, Pan launched a movement on the Taoyuan Local Union Facebook page, inviting people to write to Tsai, asking her to save the Taoyuan algal reefs that Pan said are 7,500 years old.    [FULL  STORY]