The Nanshi Creek Water Diversion Project in Taiwan raises urgent environmental and cultural concerns. This initiative plans to redirect water from Nanshi Creek to Shimen Reservoir, aiming to alleviate the region's severe droughts.
However, the project threatens the livelihoods of the Atayal tribe, who depend on Nanshi Creek for food production, agriculture, and the surrounding ecosystem. The creek plays a central role in their daily life and cultural survival.
The diversion of its natural flow poses a serious risk to the community’s long-term well-being and resilience.
A couple of siblings that belong to the Atayal tribe lay on a rock while hunting for frogs
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An Atayal youth casts a fishing spear into the river, a traditional practice passed down through generations, and a vital link to both food and cultural identity
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Members of the Atayal tribe light a bonfire along one of the rivers that the Nanshi Creek feeds
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Freshly caught river frogs being grilled over an open fire - a regular part of the local diet for the Atayal community, who rely on the river’s ecosystem for daily sustenance
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With the future of Nanshi Creek uncertain, many young Atayal grow up in the tension between tradition and change. For now, the river remains, a space of learning, gathering, and quiet resistance
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The family gathers together for a barbecue along the river
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