Overview

UMC established the Eco Echo Award to promote ecological diversity and launched the Award on the April 22 Earth Day! The 6th Eco Echo Award will continue to offer a total of NT$3 million in prize money to solicit high-quality ecological conservation projects and youth environmental action plans. The entries submitted for the Eco Echo Award each year demonstrated the hard work and actions that many groups and students put into ecological conservation. With the impact of the COVID-19 on the world, we hope that the conservation stories from all corners of Taiwan can become visible through the Eco Echo Award platform and inspire more people to become involved in ecological conservation, increase public love for the natural environment of Taiwan and increase awareness of environmental sustainability.

UMC has not only devoted itself to the Eco Echo Award, fully embracing the spirit of the 17th United Nations sustainable development goal--Partnership for the Goals, but also joined hands with value chains to enable more companies to become drivers of environmental sustainability. A total of eight corporate partners responded to the 6th Eco Echo Award, namely 3M, Edwards Technologies Limited, Tokyo Electron Limited, Hermes-Epitek Corporation, Wholetech System Hitech Limited, Faraday Technology, Taiyo Nippon Sanso Engineering Taiwan, and Unimicron, to unite the strength of enterprises and work hard for a better environment.

To date, the Eco Echo Award has supported 30 ecological conservation projects and youth environmental action plans across Taiwan. The accumulated prize money has exceeded NT$10 million. The award winning projects are diverse, ranging from tree frogs on land and birds in the sky to marine corals. This gathering of "land, sea and air" also reflects Taiwan's rich ecological environment. The 2020 Youth Environmental Action Award received enthusiastic participation from school teachers and students. The proposed environmental initiatives were very rich, and included topics such as environmental pollution from cigarette butts, environmental protection research on night markets, marine pollution by fish farming, okara reuse, protection of old trees, conservation of tree frogs and power conservation. The topics successfully achieved the Eco Echo Award goal of environmental education and fulfilled the philosophy of cultivating the next generation of eco-friendly seeds.

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The 1st Eco Echo Award

• Tainan Ecological Conservation Society
  All Together for the Xuejia Wetlands!

• Yixin Community Development Association of Puli Township, Nantou County
  Saving the endangered Moltrecht's minnow at Yixin Community.

• Wild Bird Society of Taipei
  Xiangshan Wetland Bird Habitat Conservation.

• Taiwan Association for Marine Environmental Education
  Nutritious or Toxic? An Investigation into the Gastric Presence of Plastic Granules 

The 2nd Eco Echo Award

• Taiwan Cetacean Society
  Tales of Fishermen Along Provincial Highway 6.

• Society of Wilderness
  Conservation, survey, environmental education and promotion of carnivorous 

• Wetlands Taiwan
  Voice of the Wetland--Chouchai Wetland  Sound Monitoring and Education Project

• Keelung Wild Bird Society
  Environmental Education Program on Campus Tessaratoma papillosa Control.

• Changhua Ta-Yu Community Development Association
  Dayou Biochar -Green Farming Village.

The 3rd Eco Echo Award

• Society of Wilderness
  A four-part conservation, survey, environmental education and promotion program in Taiwan.

• The Butterfly Conservation Society of Taiwan 
  The butterfly voyage - butterfly migration project.

• Wetlands Taiwan
  Protecting mother land crabs under the moonlight--- Kaohsiung coastal land crab survey and education project.

• Keelung Wild Bird Society
  Shen Ao's Trunk Rock and  peregrine falcon protection project.

• Ocean Citizen Alliance
  Seeding the seabed to protect the ocean.

The 4th Eco Echo Award

• Taiwan Ocean Conservation and Fisheries Sustainability Foundation
  Clown Fish Arriving Home to Bitou Cape Park.

• Raptor Research Group of Taiwan
  Invisible Glass Trap.

• Society of Wilderness
  Shuanglianpi Endangered Plant In-Situ Conservation and Education Promotion.

• Ocean Citizen Alliance
  Coral Field Planting Project for Children.

• Wetlands Taiwan
  Firefly Habitat Construction in Jhouzai Wetland and Education Promotion Project.

• Youth Environmental Action Award - First Prize: Alishan Butterfly Dream
• Youth Environmental Action Award - Merit Award: Addicted to Mountain Streams 

The 5 th Eco Echo Award 

• Keelung Wild Bird Society
  Seal Rock and Badouzi fishing village protection project.

• Taiwan Macaque Co-existence Promotion Association
  Garden relationship: Harmony between humans and Taiwan macaques.

• Taipei Wild Bird Society
  Saving the homes of wintering birds of passage: Restoring the Luzhou beaches of Tamsui River.

• Ocean Citizen Foundation 
  Returning to the pearl of inland seas: Dacangyu

• Raptor Research Group of Taiwan
  Investigating and preventing window kills, and promoting bird friendly architecture.

• Youth Environmental Action Award--First Prize: Frogs love Xikou.
• Youth Environmental Action Award--Merit Award: Action research on eco-friendly night markets and air quality improvement.
• Youth Environmental Action Award--Merit Award: Tree utopia. 
• Youth Environmental Action Award--Merit Award: Dragon search.