A group of more than ten environmental NGOs has convened in Taipei for an annual conference. This year, the conference’s focus is on picking up garbage and other items that don’t belong in the environment, reducing the use of coal and the number of manmade structures in nature, and leading a simpler lifestyle.
During the event on Friday, the NGO’s also presented an award to Associate Professor Huang Huan-chang of Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology for lifelong contributions to conservation. The NGO’s have given out this award each year since 2017. The NGO chose Huang for this year’s award in recognition of his long-term campaigning against the dumping of industrial waste and soil pollution.