The Dongsha Atoll National Park was officially established on January 17, 2007, under the supervision of Marine National Park Headquarters which was created on October 4 of the same year. This park is the seventh national park in Taiwan.Dongsha has been transformed into a place that symbolizes fine military efforts to promote peace in the South China Sea. This is a region full of many natural resources such as fisheries, coral, fossil oil, and natural gas. With the establishment of this national park, Taiwan hopes to contribute to international marine protection. 
Dongsha is a common name to most Taiwanese people. Its formal name, however, is the Dongsha (Pratas) Islands, including Dongsha Island, Dongsha atoll and two vereker banks that submerged under the waters. 
To help our world audience fully uncover the beauty of Dongsha Islands, a place full of white shell and coral fragments, tropical coral ecosystem, and world-class natural heritage atoll, the Headquarters compiled previous conservation research and cultural resource studies on the Dongsha Atoll National Park, and presents this guide by synthesizing these findings in an easy-understandable format of text, photos and maps. After reading this book, I hope you will enjoy the beauty that Dongsha gives us and become to be a marine conservation activist that we all share in common.