National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) has established the 'Naying Marine Censervation Education Center' at the An Nan campus. The center showcases records of years of whale and dolphin rescue missions and practical work in marine conservation. It aims to provide visitors with a unique opportunity for knowledge and practical learning, promoting marine life conservation and education, and further deepening the university's social responsibility.

The main objective of the NCKU Dolphin and Whale Center is to assist in the rescue and management of stranded whales and dolphins in Taiwan, conducting research related to rescue, medical care, rehabilitation, release, or post-mortem examination, sampling, and subsequent analysis of cases involving live or dead stranded whales and dolphins. When there are live stranding cases, the center immediately sets up a dolphin and whale rescue station to conduct rescue operations. In the case of deceased individuals, the center follows different post-mortem procedures and sampling analyses based on the degree of freshness or decomposition. This includes handling and preserving whale and dolphin skeletal samples. For extremely fresh deceased individuals, besides standard organ sampling and microbiological analysis, systematic research is conducted on precious samples.

In recent years, a multidisciplinary research team comprising Dr. Hao-Wen Wang, Clinical Medicine Institute Dr. Hughes, Director Chao-Chun Yang from the Department of Dermatology, and Academician Zheng-Ming Zhong from the Department of Pathology at the University of Southern California has been conducting systematic research on topics related to whale and dolphin skin structure and wound healing.