The changes have destroyed the Hsiukuluan's shoreline water plant ecologies. Thus, the ducks that live on the river have suddenly lost their protection.
如今，秀姑巒溪上游失去了水波不興與草澤、水灘中水族聚生的風景，更牽累借棲於溪中的大批水鴨，無「溪」可棲。