The Gongliao case is precisely the response to the Three-fold Approach of the Initiative.

(1) Securing the diversified ecosystem services and values: the previous surveys and the local ecological knowledge confirmed the conservation targets, namely the habitat of threatened species, water resource management, and the productivity of terraced paddy fields. These values and knowledge were communicated with the residents and the public.

(2) Integrated the traditional knowledge and modern technology: using the traditional farming knowledge as a modern conservation tool, which facilitates the habitat resilience, and stabilizes the local environment by applying local monitoring system.

(3) Co-management system construction: redefine the environmental stakeholders within the scope of ecosystem services, and united the stakeholders into the conservation and economic production networks.

And the five practical perspectives are:

1. Using resources within the environmental capacity and ecosystem resilience: we have practiced a ranked price system to lead the cooperated farmers to produce rice in an environmental-friendly way, which is capable with the conservation purposes. The eco-tourism is operated within the environmental capacity, which was defined by the local ecological knowledge and the cultural principles. The recultivation of terraced paddy fields has been limited in the grassland which was the fallowed agricultural land, thus made no disturbance to the forest landscape. The honey collection has been operated under the traditional methods, which has strict timing and practical restrictions, and made no negative effect on the population of honey bees.

(2) Circulated resources utilization: we have encouraged the cooperated farmers to cultivate in a traditional manner, in which the farmers were all experts. The traditional methods, for example, we weed manually and tilt in the appropriate season, to circulate the nutrients within the terraced paddy fields. We take care of the aquatic plants, predators and other ecological guilds, and recognized them are all part of the agricultural production system. One of the traditional buildings in the community was renovated by the residents, utilizing the traditional skills, and function as a teaching center of eco-tourism and a grocery of local agricultural products.

(3) Recognizing the importance of the traditional cultural values: we have established the agricultural managing principles in the manner of traditional farming skills, which includes an ancient manual pest control tools made by bamboo. We also empowered the farmers to guide the eco-tourism, the empowerments, which emphasis the interpretation and practices had great importance in the inheritance traditional wisdoms and skills.

(4) Enhancing the multiple stakeholders to join in the conservation project: we have identified the environmental stakeholders of the terraced paddy fields, promoted the “conservation partnership”, and developed multiple methods to enhance the consumers to participate the conservation industry.

(5) Empowerment of local communities and economics: we have been practicing the PES and confirmed its efforts. Currently the PES operated by the authorities, which was designed to support the environmental friendly agriculture and recreation business, could contribute a marginal benefit of 370%. The local government’s tourism development projects were cooperated with the Ho-ho Cooperation, and promoted the business social responsibility investment.