Taiwan’s forest ecosystem extends from its ocean shores up into mountains reaching 4,000m above sea level. Taiwan is home to some 4,400 distinct endemic vascular plant species som e of which found their way to the island as long as 2 million years ago in the early Pleistocene . A number of these species clearly meet United Nations World Natural Heritage standards in terms of their importance, exceptionality , andlimited range.
Sacred Forest takes a n eco philosophical approach to introduce the deeply unique nature of Taiwan’s cloud enveloped cypress forest ecosystems and to explore the nation’s oldest forests, tallest tree species, and priceless, multi millennial stands of giant ‘sacred trees ’. Furthermore, t his film reflects on the reciprocal relationship between humans and forest environments, and considers the future of the latter and its inevitable repercus sions on the former
Sacred Forest follows six separate groups, each with different interests and field specialties, as they experience the raw majesty of the forest from multiple facets ranging from the analytically intellectual and eco hilosophical to the introspectively emotional and spiritually uplifting.