Lalu Wetland Nature Reserve

Lalu Wetland National Nature Reserve is a typical wetland on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, belonging to the reed peat bog category. Its humid climate and abundant aquatic plants are rare on the plateau, attracting large numbers of wild birds each year, including ruddy shelducks, mallards, bar-headed geese, brown-headed gulls, hoopoes, larks, and skylarks. A small number of black-necked cranes, a Class I protected animal in China, also frolic here. This urban wetland, one of the highest-altitude and largest in the world, is also a natural inland wetland in my country’s urban areas. Every November, thousands of migratory birds of different species flock to Lalu Wetland to overwinter, making it a habitat and wintering ground for precious and endangered birds such as black-necked cranes, bar-headed geese, ruddy shelducks, egrets, coots, and bearded vultures.