Residents protest against turning peacock garden into hotel / 日月潭孔雀園改建飯店 民眾抗議痛批　　　　　　　　　　

Meanwhile in Nantou, the county government is planning to turn a peacock garden into a hotel, through a Build Operate and Transfer project, and has sold off all the birds that lived in the garden. However, some say that the area is a traditional territory of local indigenous people, and as a result, many have now come forward to call the government out on its disregard of local opinion and existing legal procedures. ==PROTESTORS== We're opposing Sun Moon Lake for BOT! Return Thao Tribe their traditional territory! Residents around the Sun Moon Lake area were protesting at the peacock garden because the county government not only sold off the peacocks and other valuable birds at low prices, it also leased the land of peacock garden for a BOT contract. ==PROTESTOR== According to the Indigenous Peoples Basic Law, any development to the indigenous peoples' traditional territory, you must obtain consent from the local indigenous peoples. If the Thao Tribe does not agree, then the county government must hold on to it. 127 birds including 77 peacocks were sold at NT$150,000 to a private theme park. The relocation time for those birds was shifted to pre-dawn without notice, the protestors criticized the county government as being evasive. However, the county government defended itself, saying that the pre-dawn relocation was to avoid the peacocks' panicking. ==WANG YUAN-CHUNG, Nantou County Tourism Bureau Dir.== The regulations such as soil water conservation, environmental impact assessment. We will enforce them in accordance with the law. In our BOT contract, we required the business owner to invest NT$20 million to build a park on the 1.6 acres of land. The protestors pointed out, the Sun Moon Lake has been the traditional territory of the Thao Tribe, and the county government violated the Basic Law by leasing the land to a private enterprise. The lease period was for 50 years and the pre-payment was only NT$60 million. The protestors said they will submit the case to the Control Yuan to investigate administrative negligence. TRANSLATED BY：ANTHONY LIN ==抗議民眾== 反對日月潭BOT 還邵族傳統領域 南投日月潭當地民眾到孔雀園抗議，他們不滿縣府將孔雀等珍貴鳥禽便宜賣給私人企業，還將土地BOT給財團，根本不尊重民眾和當地原住民。 ==抗議人士== 根據原基法的立法精神 我們在開發原住民族 傳統領域的時候 一定要尊重原住民族的 知情同意權 那邵族人如果不同意 縣府就不能動 包括77隻孔雀在內的127隻鳥禽，縣府以約15萬元賣給新竹一家私人園區，原本預計今天上午才要進行遷移，但卻臨時提早到凌晨就進行，抗議民眾認為縣府不敢面對問題，才會急著將孔雀運走，縣府解釋會改為夜間運送，是避免造成孔雀驚慌。 ==南投縣觀光處長 王源鍾== 對於相關的法規 包括水土保持 保括環評 還是會依照相關的法規來做 那我們在合約裡面 也會把後面另外有一個 1.6公頃的土地 來在契約上規範 那廠商必須投入2千萬 闢建為公園 抗議人士指出，日月潭是邵族的傳統領域，縣府卻把孔雀園BOT給財團，已經違反原民法，開發許可年限設定為50年，預計繳交給縣府的金額卻只有6000多萬，過程明顯有瑕疵，將會要求監察院調查是否有行政疏失。 記者 邱植培 彭煥群 南投報導