Yufa Ten-Thousand-Mu Forest Park

Yufa Ten-Thousand-Mu Forest Park

Located near Yufa in Daxing District, Beijing. The park features trees planted in clustered formations rather than in rows or patterns, showcasing the unspoiled beauty of nature. The eastern part is an area of red-leaf trees. The park houses a national wildlife breeding base that has raised a number of endangered rare animals unique to China, such as golden monkeys, gibbons, pythons, tigers, and leopards. Relying on the Yufa Ten-Thousand-Mu Forest, the 850-hectare tourist resort area has established the largest third-generation Beijing Wildlife Park in the plains region, the International Arena, the Daidai Bear Five-Star Entertainment City, the Fubaihe Holiday Hotel, and a number of other large-scale leisure and tourism venues.

Mixed forest of trees and shrubs, covering 117 hectares; mixed coniferous and broadleaf forest, covering 60 hectares; red leaf area, covering 98 hectares; poplar area, covering 170 hectares. The main tree species include poplar, willow, locust, Chinese toon, oriental arborvitae, black locust, sea buckthorn, honey locust, apple, prickly ash, and torch tree, totaling 25 varieties. – At the core of the ten-thousand-mu forest area is the Beijing Wildlife Park, spanning 17 hectares. It primarily features primates, birds, and ungulates, with over 2,000 animals from more than 40 species, including golden monkeys, Lady Amherst’s pheasants, and brown eared pheasants, which have formed one of the world’s largest artificially bred populations of national first-class protected animals. More than ten rare bird species unique to China can also be seen here, including wild pheasants. Unlike traditional caged enclosures, the park uses natural barriers such as trenches, hedges, and water bodies, and even allows some animals to roam freely without any barriers. Through free-range, mixed-species, and visitor-accessible viewing methods, the park offers visitors an immersive experience that brings them closer to nature.

Based on animal species, the park has currently developed several scenic areas: the Chinese Pheasant Garden, the Takin Mountain Ecological Zone, the Golden Monkey Family Area and Free-Range Zone, the White Eared Pheasant Free-Range Garden, the Snow Leopard Landscape Area, Swan Lake, the Lemur Island, and others forming the wetland ecological zone, the Macaque Mountain Feeding Area, the Ussuri Raccoon Dog Feeding Area, the Forest Ungulate Ecological Zone, the Australian Ostrich Area, and the Extinct Animals Memorial Graveyard. If you visit in the summer, mornings and evenings are the best times, when animals come out of their shelters to play in the cool weather. Visitors may arrive in the afternoon, stay overnight, and leave the next morning. On Lemur Island, you can find a very cute little animal—the ring-tailed lemur, originally from Madagascar in Africa. It appeared on Earth before humans and is known as a “living fossil” in the animal kingdom. Gentle and clean-loving, lemurs groom their fur daily with comb-like teeth and hooked claws. On sunny days, they sit upright, basking their pale bellies in the sun.