This year’s Puli Car-Free Day opened at the National Puli Vocational High School on Nov 1, the theme being “Ride Bikes for the Trees, Run to your Heart’s Content.” The bike ride and jogging events, together with visits to old trees in the community and a butterfly ecology restoration event, attracted over 500 participants.
This year’s event was divided into the bike ride and the jogging groups. The bike ride group included a trip to search out old trees, using the bike ride to visit nine trees spread around the town, to find out about the life stories of trees such as the banyan tree, the black pine, the Chinese crapemyrtle and the podocarpus. The jogging group, meanwhile, went around roads in the community, visiting many community-run butterfly habitats and appreciating the flowers and butterflies along the route, spending a relaxing weekend.
(Liberty Times, translated by Paul Cooper)
今年埔里無車日十一月一日上午在國立埔里高工登場，今年以「單車愛老樹，慢跑心自在」為主題，將單車、路跑活動，結合社區老樹探訪、蝴蝶生態復育，吸引五百多名民眾參與。
Photo: Tung Chen-kuo, Liberty Times
照片：自由時報記者佟振國
今年活動分為單車組與路跑組，其中單車組納入尋訪老樹遊程，透過單車休閒運動，探訪分布鎮內的九株老樹，了解榕樹、黑松、九芎、桃實百日青等老樹的生命故事；路跑組則繞行社區道路，探訪許多社區自行營造的蝴蝶棲地，路跑也能賞花、賞蝶，度過輕鬆悠閒的週休假日。
（自由時報記者佟振國）
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