Nan-ao Broad-leaved Forest Nature Reserve

Date Established	March 12, 1992
Area (hectare)	200
Primary Object for Protection	Sub-tropical broad-leaf woods, primitive lake & rare animals/vegetations
Location	Forest Compartments 87, Heping Working Circle, National Forests
Management Agency	Yilan Branch, FANCA

Nan-ao Broad-leaved Forest Nature Reserve has an altitude between 700 and 1500 meters with a 200 hectares area. Within it there is a lake named Mysterious Lake which has a 4.8 hectares area and those thick thick sediments in its bottom are always telling the evolution story of swamp plants, forest and lakes.

Nan-ao Broad-leaved Forest Nature Reserve has a complete original forest form and broad-leaved trees and coniferous trees are the main members of the forest. 80 sorts of woody terrestrial plants, such as long glans oak, holm oak, red nanmu, Neolitsea aurata, Litsea auriculata, are dominant species here. Moss, ferns and Orchidaceae are abundant because of the humid environment here. More than 50 kinds of birds, for example, bamboo partridge, head bird line, Alicippe morrisonia, white-eared sibia, black-necklaced scimitar-babbler and rufous-faced warbler of blackbirds, sing around the broad-leaved forest all the time. Moorhen, green-winged teal, northern pinrail, mandarin duck and black-crowned night-heron of waterfowls can often be seen within the lake area.