Coastal Windbreak Forest is Down

• Photographer
  Meng-Chen Lee, Taiwan

Coastal zones in South Taiwan are constantly subjected to strong
northeasterly winds in winter and some destructive typhoons in
summer. The existence of a coastal windbreak belt was very
effective in preventing the inland migration of sand dunes but
nowadays, because of human activities and climate change, the
sea is closer, the sand dune is drawing backward and so,
windbreak trees fall down. Coastal zones are changing and
Windbreak forests are disappearing.