Yanghu Wetland Park

Visitors are enchanted by the sea of flowers at Yanghu National Wetland Park in Changsha. (Photo/Wu Qiusheng) 

The photo shows dawn scenery of the Yanghu National Wetland Park in Changsha. (Photo/Zhou Qiliang) 

Located at Yanghu Ecological New Town, Yanghu National Wetland Park covers an area of 478 hectares. It is an important ecological protection project in Xiangjiang New Area. The park plays a vital role in wetland protection and conservation, ecological restoration, and science popularization. It will be fully developed in three phases, with phaseⅠand Ⅱ completed (covering an area of 200 ha.) and phase Ⅲ under construction.

Lying in the center of the park and targeted as a demonstration area of wetland biodiversity, the second phase covers an area of 100 hectares, about 30% of which is water. The water area boasts 150,000 wetland plants of 1,500 different species, 150 kinds of birds and a large number of subtropical animals and insects. There are equipped with such facilities as the Wetland Science Museum, View Tower, Amusement Center, Experience Center of Farming Wetland, Bird Watching House, and Demonstration Area of Wetland Plants. Taking up one third of the total area of the second phase, the water part is the largest bird habitat on the West Bank of the Xiangjiang River, providing home for such wetland birds as egret. One to two bird watching houses are to be built in this area, enabling citizens to observe the life of birds.

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn

Photo source: hunan.gov.cn