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Shei-Pa National Park creates aerial platform to study forest canopy ecology (2014/02/19)

To study the canopy of Shei-Pa National Park, two 7-story aerial research platforms were created and linked together by a bridge. These form Taiwan’s first high-altitude canopy research platform. 

To get to this aerial platform, you need to wear a safety helmet, a safety harness, carabiners and a safety rope. You use your hands and feet to climb this rope up into the air.

This aerial platform sits 21 meters in the air, roughly the equivalent of a 7-storey building. The two platforms can accommodate six people, and there is a 10-meter bridge between them. For those with a fear of heights, walking on this bridge, with big gaps between wooden planks, can be a hair-raising adventure. 

Overseas researchers frequently use lifts or hot air balloons to research forest canopies, though Taiwan researchers have a difficult and physically strenuous task of climbing ropes high into the air.

From this tree, the view is very different. Video cameras capture squirrels eating meat and bird eggs. 

Lee Chiu-fang
Shei-Pa National Park Director
Reaching the canopy at higher than 20 meters allows us to see natural ecology that we rarely see.

These aerial platforms linked by an aerial bridge may soon be open to others who want to experience the special feeling of being high up in the forest canopy.

雪見樹冠層

為了研究「樹冠層」生態，雪霸國家公園，在雪見遊憩區內的樹上，搭建了2座七層樓高的研究平台，而且還在兩個平台中間，架設了一條長十公尺的空中廊道，堪稱是國內第一座研究樹冠層生態的高空平台。

要上高空平台，安全帽、安全環扣，配備不能少，接下來，得靠雙手、雙腳，迎體向上，自己拉繩攀爬上去。

樹冠研究平台，高21公尺，相當於7層樓高，兩個平台上可容納6個人站立，中間還有一條長10公尺的空中走廊，踏板間隔、鏤空，懼高症走得直發抖。

要研究樹冠層的生態，國外常用升降梯或熱氣球，台灣以往要用繩索懸吊，十分艱辛不方便。

爬到樹上，視野不一樣，監視器還拍到松鼠也吃葷，鑽到樹屋偷吃鳥蛋。

[[雪霸國家公園處長 李秋芳]]
上到20幾公尺的樹冠，去看平常我們看不到的空中生態。

「雪見樹冠走道」未來不定期開放探索營體驗，讓國人有機會一窺樹冠層的豐富生態景觀。

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