Tseng Kuei-hai, a doctor at Hsinyi Hospital in Kaohsiung, feeling that Kaohsiung seriously lacked green space, argued that Camp Weiwu should be turned into a nature park to improve the quality of the local environment, and he formed the WPPA.
直到高雄市信義醫院醫師曾貴海有感於高雄綠地面積嚴重不足，認為衛武營若規劃為自然公園，才能真正提昇當地的環境品質，而發起「衛武營公園促進會」。