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Our mission

  • Establish an employee volunteering culture and increase participation.
  • Create a sustainable environment by reducing pollution and promoting biodiversity.

Our role

  • Organize employees and their family members to participate in sustainable actions such as beach cleanups in response to the government's call and international trends.
  • Integrate external forces such as industry, government, academia, research, and social enterprises and promote environmental education.

Our actions

  • Planted 2,480 native Taiwanese trees on a 1.4-hectare plot of land along the Zhuoshui River and promoted environmentally friendly volunteer activities.
  • Implementation environmental education, offering children knowledge and ability to treat the environment gently.

WNC Forest Park

Taiwan is a highly populated small island, making land especially precious. Providing resources where needed is what WNC considers before launching each biodiversity project. WNC collaborated with the Water Resources Agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, selecting a 1.4-hectare riverbank area adjacent to the Xiluo Butterfly Park on the left bank of the Zhuoshui River as the site for tree planting. The aim is to assist the Xiluo Township Office in improving the long-standing dust pollution caused by the Zhuoshui River. At WNC’s invitation, the NTU Experimental Forest, which has long been committed to forest management, also joined in creating the WNC Forest Park.  Taking professional advice from NTU, we selected tree species such as camphor, Chinese banyan, maple, Taiwan beech, Taiwan incense cedar, and Taiwan red pine due to their drought resistance, wind protection, and high carbon sequestration capabilities, ensuring both reforestation and conservation benefits. Through collaboration between industry, government, academia, and research institutions, WNC’s Forest Park actually provides value for a wider range of stakeholders, both internal and external.

In April 2024, WNC Forest Park 2.0 chose to settle in the Xitou Nature Education Area in Nantou, Taiwan. In collaboration with the NTU Experimental Forest, approximately 1,500 Taiwania cryptomerioides saplings were replanted in a 1-hectare artificial forest that had been entirely cut down due to damage from animals and pests. In addition to tracking the survival rate of the saplings, we will continue to monitor the local flora and fauna to maintain ecological balance and establish an ecological database to promote biocredits.

Annual beach cleanup event

WNC employees form volunteer clubs of their own accord. In addition to participating in volunteer activities, they also take part in environmental improvement actions, including the “Salute to the Sea” beach cleanup event held in October 2023. Nearly a thousand people, including government officials and private sector representatives, collected about 3.2 tonnes of marine debris and 0.7 tonnes of recyclable materials. WNC volunteers cleared 165.5 kilograms of marine debris.

Environmental education: See Taiwan from Above

To allow our children to better understand the environment WNC continued to work with the Chi Po-lin Foundation in 2023 and organized a photography camp. A total of 35 fifth- to eighth-graders participated in this 5-day Environmental Education Base Camp, including three children of WNC employees. The course contents included photography skills, film production and storytelling courses, exploring old streets, ecological observation, team building, and results presentations.

During the camp, professional instructors and mentors from different fields guided children to explore Tamsui Old Street and the Waziwei Nature Reserve in-depth starting from environmental phenomena depicted in Chi Po-lin’s photography works in order to learn about the local culture and ecology and express their observations of the local environment and culture through video recording and photographic works. Through games and discussions, they identify problems, analyze causes, and articulate their viewpoints.

For two years in a row, WNC sponsored a total of NT$386,000 for the Environmental Education Base Camp organized by the Chi Po-lin Foundation. Leveraging past success, WNC and the Chi Po-lin Foundation will launch a new session in Hsinchu in 2024.