You decide on Guangdong’s most beautiful wetlands!

    The National Day holiday has ended, congratulations to everyone for getting through the last statutory holiday of 2015. Where did you all go during this year's National Day? Did you take a walk in the “kidneys of the Earth” – the wetlands?

    Since its launch on October 18, 2014, the search and selection campaign for “Guangdong’s Most Beautiful Wetlands” has been carried out under the guidance and support of the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Department and other administrative departments. To better reflect public support for wetland ecology and expand the influence of “Guangdong’s Most Beautiful Wetlands,” the deadline for WeChat voting has been extended to October 20th. At the same time, the submission deadline for the Most Beautiful Wetlands Photography Competition has also been extended to October 20th. The submission email is gdsdbianjibu@163.com. For specific submission details, please visit our official website(http://gdwetland.org)!

    Adhering to the principle of “selecting the wetlands that the public deems the most beautiful,” the evaluation of “Guangdong’s Most Beautiful Wetlands” adopts a method of “WeChat voting + expert review,” assessing based on the criteria of “ecological beauty,” “cultural beauty,” and “scenic beauty.”Follow the Guangdong Wetland Conservation Association on WeChatand vote for the wetland you think is the most beautiful!

    Voting period: September 28 – October 20!

    Important things are said three times!!! Vote now!! Those who have already voted are welcome to invite family and friends to join in!Let’s first get to know the candidate wetlands—have you been to any of them? (The following wetlands are listed in no particular order)

 

    Located in the central urban area of Guangzhou, Haizhu Wetland borders Pazhou Convention and Exhibition Center to the north, overlooks the University Town to the south, faces the International Bio Island to the east, and spans the new city central axis to the west. Covering an area three times the size of New York’s Central Park and only 3 kilometers from the iconic Canton Tower, it is the largest and most beautiful national wetland park in the central area of a megacity in China, truly the “green heart” of Guangzhou. With a crisscrossing water network, swaying green trees, fruit-laden orchards, soaring birds and leaping fish, the wetland embodies the essence of a thousand-year-old fruit-based agricultural culture. It blends the vibrancy of a bustling metropolis with the beauty of natural ecology, boasts distinctive characteristics of delta urban lakes and riverine wetlands, serves as an important migratory corridor for birds, the birthplace of Lingnan fruits, and a hub of Lingnan folk culture.