Green Island Sika Deer Ecology Park Introduction
Originally, Green Island did not have any Formosan sika deer, but in the 1960s, people began introducing and raising them for antler harvesting and sale. This eventually developed into a unique deer breeding industry on Green Island, reaching its peak from 1977 to 1983, with over 2,000 Formosan sika deer on the island. However, as the deer farming industry in Taiwan boomed, the price of deer antlers plummeted, making deer farming economically unviable. Deer farmers released their sika deer into the mountains, and the species, which had been extinct in the wild on the main island of Taiwan for many years, found a new lease on life in the forests of Green Island. The Formosan sika deer, still a precious resource, is one of the ecological treasures valued by Green Island, which has established a designated area as a sika deer park, allowing visitors to get closer to and understand the ecology of the Formosan sika deer.
