Bawangling

Bawangling

Bawangling Nature Reserve is located at the junction of Baisha and Ledong counties. With a total area of 1.17 million mu, there are mountains ranging from 100 meters to more than 1000 meters. It is an ideal place for forest tourism because of the intricate nature of the original dense forest in the mountains, the extraordinary trees and vines, the verdant and magnificent scenery, and the competition for prosperity and green.

Basic introduction

Bawangling, 350-1438m above sea level, covers an area of 6626 hectares. The main peak of Bawangling is 1495 meters high, with continuous mountains, floating clouds, vast forests and towering trees. It has tens of thousands of hectares of tropical virgin forest. There are more than 1400 kinds of original forest trees, including 27 kinds of precious tree species listed as national key protection, such as Aristolochia multiflora, Lu Junsong, etc. In 1983, an original Wild Litchi forest was discovered, in which there was a "litchi king", with a DBH of 7.5 meters and an estimated age of more than 1000 years. Such an ancient litchi tree was first discovered in the world. Due to the complete preservation of the natural ecosystem, there are many roots and rare wild animals growing and reproducing in the mountains. Among the more than 200 tropical plants, 29 rare plants have been listed as the national key protection objects, and more than 10 species of animals have been listed as the national first and second level protection objects, such as gibbon, clouded leopard, water deer, pangolin, etc. Among them, there are more than 20 black crested gibbons in four groups. Black crested gibbon is one of the four great apes in the world, which has high scientific research and ornamental value. The state has set up a special protection station here, which is the only black crested gibbon Nature Reserve in China. UNESCO has also established a bioscience circle research base in the forest region.

Plant wonders

There are many kinds of plants in Bawangling Nature Reserve. In order to survive and reproduce in the competition, many special abilities have been formed in the evolution of thousands of years, which can be called the wonder of nature.

Ficus altissima is a kind of epiphytic plant. It produces red and sweet fruits for birds to peck and eat. Birds swallow the fruits and spread them around through feces. Therefore, Ficus altissima has a growing territory. The seeds of Ficus altissima are good at rooting and Germinating on other plants, and birds excrete everywhere in the forest. The seeds of Ficus altissima will germinate and grow under suitable environment.

In the primitive dense forest of Bawangling, it is often seen that banyan trees grow out of the hollow of the right part of the tree. It twines around the stem of the tree, and gradually grows aerial roots. Many aerial roots hang down, extend into the underground along the trunk, and become epiphytic plants in the tree. As time goes on, the number of air roots is increasing. The trunk of Rhododendron spinulosa is surrounded by many air roots, just like a boa constrictor. One day, the trunk of Rhododendron spinulosa was cut off by Ficus altissima, and the crown of Rhododendron spinulosa was closely covered by the dense branches and leaves of Ficus altissima. Due to the long-term lack of nutrition and sunlight, Rhododendron spinulosa was "strangled". Forest workers call Gao Shanrong a "hanging killer".

In the alpine forest with an altitude of nearly 1000 meters, you will also encounter the wonders of "giant rattan weaving net" and "sky garden".

In the forest, hundreds of wooden vines, which are as thick as bowls and hundreds of meters long, shuttle back and forth among the trees, winding from one tree to another in circles, weaving into irregular giant rattan nets. Countless tropical flowers and parasitic grasses cluster among the vines at different heights above the ground. They compete with each other in various forms, just like a sky garden full of flowers. Some of these communities are ingenious, with a variety of tropical flowers and trees supporting each other and embellishing each other. They look like a well-designed flower garden bonsai, which is called "sky garden" by forest workers and villagers.

Walking through the primitive dense forest, sometimes blocked by the huge green barrier, we have to make a detour. These barriers are also made by giant vines weaving "sky garden", the only difference is that the former is laid flat in the air, while the latter is hung on the trunk. Forestry workers have given this kind of twining vine a proper and vivid name - "forest screen".

The "forest screen" is a unique landscape of tropical rainforest. The giant vines, which are like arms and legs, either climb left and right, or spiral around, or crisscross, grow among dozens of towering trees, forming the backbone meridians of the giant network. The dense small vines with nine twists and ten turns form a net between the meridians, and finally form a solid vine wall with a width of 100 meters and a height of about 10 meters. Visitors here, no hole to drill, seamless can side, looking at the wall helpless, can only bypass.

If we say that lianas such as Ficus altissima, such as boa constrictor, rely on "plunder" to extract sunlight and nutrition, then weak plants without brute force, such as herbaceous plants like floraceae and Araceae, will cleverly "cleverly" extract the ingredients needed for their own growth from towering trees.

These epiphytic herbs in the forest, like elves, do their best to climb the trunk, the branches, the leaves. They can't touch the ground, but they can show off in the sky. It is gratifying at first sight, hateful at second thought, and it can be realized after deep thinking. Nature has its definite laws and regulations, and any creature has the right to obtain sunlight and nutrition. For example, the forest is also full of colorful and endless life tension because of the tall and great shore of trees, the winding of ivy and the smart and beautiful flowers of Tiannan

Natural Reserve

Gibbon Nature Reserve

The total area of Bawangling gibbon nature reserve is more than 35000 mu, where mountains are continuous, peaks are emerald, forests are vast, ancient trees are towering, natural ecosystems are well preserved, and tropical biological resources are extremely rich. Along the winding forest road into the reserve, look around, in addition to the growth of many valuable tree species, wild animals staple food of various wild fruit trees are all over the mountain, there are steamed bread fruit, pomegranate, bamboo, black ink, green fruit banyan, mountain olive, Moutan, Wild Litchi and so on. In this colorful wild orchard forest, there are several groups of protected black crested gibbons.

Black crested gibbon, also known as black ape and human bear, mainly lives in tropical virgin forest and almost entirely lives in trees. The hand of the gibbon is longer than the sole of the foot, and the upper arm is longer than the lower limb. The two arms stretch out to about 1.7 meters. The gibbon uses both hands and feet on the tree, climbs and jumps, and quickly climbs from tree to tree like a swing. They live in groups and activities with the family as the main body, and form a family with one male, one female and their young. They have feelings for each other. At the break of dawn, they come out and sing in turn, echoing each other. When we are together, we often shout and cry, hug and embrace. Each family has a fixed living space, which is occupied by its own. It can't be invaded by other groups. When it sees different groups, it will fight. Young apes live with their parents from the first to the sixth instar, and after they mature at the seventh and eighth instar, they find a mate to give birth and form a new group. Female apes are solitary in every birth and reproduce very slowly.

Gibbon is one of the four existing anthropoid apes in the world. Its living habits are similar to human beings, and its skeleton, teeth and vital structure are also similar to human beings. It is an important experimental animal in zoology, psychology, anthropology and sociology. There are only a few groups in Hainan Island and Xishuangbanna in China. Hainan Island is the main production area, and they live in Bawangling, Wuzhishan and Jianling In Fengling and other primeval forests.

Bawangling Nature Reserve

Bawangling Nature Reserve is located at the junction of Baisha and Ledong counties. Bawangling is a mountainous area with a total area of 1.17 million mu in four counties and cities, namely, Changjiang, Baisha, Ledong and Dongfang. There are mountains ranging from 100 meters to more than 1000 meters. It is an ideal place for forest tourism because of the intricate nature of the original dense forest in the mountains, the extraordinary trees and vines, the verdant and magnificent scenery, and the competition for prosperity and green.

Bawangling Nature Reserve is located at the junction of Baisha and Ledong counties, covering an area of 35000 mu. Thanks to the unique natural conditions, the ecosystem here is well preserved. It is one of the areas with the most abundant tropical biological resources in China. There are many rare animals and plants in the reserve.

The main peak is hutouling, 1441 meters above sea level, and the second peak is Bawangling, 1390 meters above sea level. The dense forest is extremely hot and humid, with multi-level trees competing to grow, preserving the original and ancient tropical rain forest environment.

There are more than 600 kinds of wood species in ancient forests, and there are as many as 27 rare tree species listed as national key protection and forbidden cutting. Some of them are so hard that they can't be nailed or cut with an axe. They are known as "green steel"; some of them are immortal and tough; some are fragrant and never afraid of insects; some are rare and valuable Cephalotaxus hainanensis, which can extract anticancer drugs; and some are the most poisonous plants in the world It will soon suffocate and die.

The tropical orchid growing in Bawangling is famous in recent years because it has won many awards in national orchid exhibitions. The precious orchid varieties include five lip orchid, ivory orchid, wintersweet orchid, firework orchid, anolan, etc. Some of them grow on the ground, and some of them are epiphytic on the tree trunks.

There are many rare wild animals in the reserve. The most precious one is the black crested gibbon, one of the four great apes in the world. There are more than 60 kinds of rare animals, including clouded leopard, black bear, water deer, pangolin, giant squirrel, coconut cat, civet, flying mouse, peacock pheasant, white Oriole chicken, pheasant, woodpecker, owl, flying eagle, partridge, python, Juxi, etc.

Get honor

Due to the complete preservation of the natural ecosystem, there are many rare wild animals growing and reproducing in the mountains. Among more than 200 kinds of tropical plants, 29 kinds of rare plants have been listed in the national priority list

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