At that time the local government had marked off the Chiku wetlands as an industrial zone and planned to reclaim the land, but under pressure from international and domestic wild bird conservationists the land was kept as it was.
當年台南縣七股溼地原被地方政府劃為工業區，打算填平造陸，也在國內外野鳥保育人士力爭下而保留下來。