| Awards *The Taiwan United Daily News Group Outstanding Journalist Fellowship, 1999 *Taiwan Outstanding Journalist Awards, 1998 ( for Reporting on Sustainable Development in San Francisco Bay Area *Wu-Sun Wun Best Reporter Prize, 1998 For series articles: "From Global Climate Changes to Changes in Taiwan's Industrial Policy" published in CommonWealth, April 1998 ( This is the Taiwan most important Journalism prize in Taiwan, roughly equivalent to the American Pulitzer Prize, which includes a cash award of NT$ 250,000 (about US$ 8300) *WU-Sun Wun Best Reporter Prize, 1997. For articles "Taiwan's Second Land Use Revolution: The Impacts of converting agricultural land to industry, published by CommonWealth Magazine, April 1997 * Taiwan Executive Yuan, Government Information Office prize for excellence in documentary films, 1996, " After Haba Typhoon: Opportunities for Taiwan's environment" *" Earth Vision 1996", Japan, Excellence Documentary Films Award for "The Biography of a River:The KaoPing River in Southern Taiwan" * City Bank Award for Pan Asia excellence in Journalism, 1996, for book " Environmental Taiwan" *Wu-Sun Wun Best Reporter Prize, 1996, for book " Environmental Taiwan" Activities and Service Member of the SAVE(U.S. Spoonbill Voluntary Action Echo, A project of Earth Island Institute, SAVE is a voluntary organization dedicated to an international plan to rescue the endangered black-faced spoonbill, a species nesting and threatened by a proposed industrial complex. Renowned conservationist, David Brower was the Chair of SAVE. Member of the TEAN( Taiwan Environment Action Network), CAEPA Chinese American Environmental Protection Association, Environmental Conservancy Association, Taipei Bird Watching Organization, Sierra Club , Audubon Society, World Watch Institute, Society of Environmental Journalists. |
| Ichin Cheng |