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Situated between Maolin and Liugui Districts of Kaohsiung City at an altitude of 750m at the southernmost tip of Central Mountain Range and currently governed by Liugui branch of the Forestry Research Institute, Shanping boasts a complete forest ecological system and is an important bird-watching area in southern Taiwan. Hence the name "Birdwatchers' Paradise." there are a total of 134 bird species here, the residents of which make up two third of that of the total number on the entire island.

The four original tasks of workstation of Shanping are:

1. Shanping Nursery Garden is an important place for growing seedlings.
2. The sunbathing field for Cinchona.
3. Arboretums.
4. The most important forestry research base in southern Taiwan with experiment and research projects still underway that serves as a post for researchers to rest their feet and exchange results of their studies.

In Shanping, there are slate houses, bamboo arboretum, arboretum, nanmu exhibit (Phoebe nanmu), landscape plants exhibition area nursery garden, deciduous trees exhibit zone, Cinnamomum kanehirae Clonal Orchard, botanical garden in the Tengchuan area, and stream ecology exhibit zone. In addition, there are a total of 139 species of butterflies here, so don't miss it.