Suncheon Bay Wetland I

Suncheon Bay Wetland I

COASTAL WETLAND SUNCHEON BAY!
Suncheon bay is considered as one of the most beautiful and biologically diverse area in Korea. It is located in the center of Korean southern coast.
It has the shape of a pot surrounded by Yeosu Peninsula and Goheung Pensinsula. Suncheon bay is coastal wetland and has various geographical features such as the river mouth, reed beds, salt marshes, tidal flat and islands.
It neighbours rice fields (in reclaimed land), salt pans, seaside villages, fish and shrimp ponds (which used to be salt pans) low hills and mountains.
These features make for a very harmonious ecosystem with natural connections to rivers and brooks.
The scenery that spacious tidal flat and low hills on the beach draw together is the distingtive fascinating point of Suncheon bay.
It is not very wide area but you can find both ecosystem diversity and habitat diversity at the same time in one place. The reed beds of the Dong-cheon in Suncheon Bay, we can see there distingtive circular shape, as if someone has made them in circles on purpose.
On December 31, 2003, the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries declared Suncheon Bay a Wetland Protection Area and on January 20, 2006 it was registered at the first wet land of international importance under the Ramsar Convention in Korea.