Recently, the Yancheng Wetland Rare Birds National Nature Reserve and Dafeng Pere David's Deer National Nature Reserve were included on the latest USESCO tentative list as parts of the Coast of the Bohai Gulf and the Yellow Sea of China.
A tentative list is an inventory of those properties which a country intends to consider for nomination to the World Heritage List.
As the current largest continuously-distributed mud flat coastal zone in the world, the wetland in Yancheng have both terrestrial and marine ecologies and landscapes.
“The Yellow Sea Wetland is the only region with world natural heritage potential in Jiangsu, and its natural charm and protection value have been acknowledged by the world”, said Chen Yaohua, deputy director of World Heritage Research Center of Peking University.
Chen believes that Yancheng has great potential in applying for recognition as a world natural heritage.
Due to the coastal development mode adopted by Yancheng in previous years, the original landform of vast coastal wetlands was preserved, forming a special natural landscape of the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. The Yellow Sea Wetlands have animal-plant community which are different from those in other regions, with mud flat habitat and a variety of benthonic animals preserved.
