{"id":20041,"date":"2017-11-23T17:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T08:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20041"},"modified":"2017-12-02T09:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T00:38:04","slug":"tame-wilderness-wetlands-in-the-city-gyeongpo-wetland-gangneung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=20041","title":{"rendered":"Tame wilderness \u2013 wetlands in the city: Gyeongpo wetland, Gangneung"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wetlands in and near cities always have to balance between the understandable desire of citizens to enjoy nature close to their home and the necessities for protection. The outcome is often a compromise between both. In South Korea, also the desire to tame nature seems to play a role in designs for wetlands. A recent visit of Gyeongpo lagoon, named the \u201cGyeongpo Prickly Waterlily (Kasiyon) Protected Area\u201d, is a case for this trend. Gyeongpo lake in Gangneung has been the scene of major remodeling in the last years, partly due to the upcoming Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which are co-hosted by Gangneung. There were a few hundred birds seen, among them most numerous Eurasian Coots, Mallards, Eurasian Teals, Great Crested Grebes, Little Grebes<\/strong>, some Greater Scaups, Tufted Ducks, Northern Pintails, Northern Shovelers, Common Mergansers, Grey Herons, Great Cormorants <\/strong>and Great Egrets<\/strong>. The formerly \u201cwilder\u201d part of the wetland with swampy areas and reeds has now been completely surrounded by nice wooden walkways including bridges and on one side a small ferry to pull. Hides made from reed allow bird watchers to look from the (quite busy) street side. A small observation center hands out maps and other visitor information. Certainly a place where people stressed from life and ongoing construction in Gangneung can well recover \u2013 from the point of view of conservation, however, this orderly wetland seems to have lost much of its value\u2026<\/p>\n

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Overview over the \u201cGyeongpo Prickly Waterlily Wetland Protected Area\u201d \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

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Information on the Prickly waterlily (Kasiyon), which gave the wetland its name \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

\"3\u201cTamed wilderness\u201d \u2013 the ferry across the water \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

\"4Wetland center \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

\"5\u00a0Information on valuable species \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

\"6View over the main lake \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great Crested Grebe<\/strong> Podiceps cristatus<\/em> \u00a0<\/em>\u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

\"8Little Grebe<\/strong> Tachybaptus ruficollis<\/em> \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

\"9Bullheaded Shrike<\/strong> Lanius bucephalus<\/em> \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

\"10Eurasian Teal <\/strong>Anas crecca<\/em> \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

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Birds (Grey Herons<\/strong> Ardea cinerea<\/em> Great Egrets<\/strong> Ardea alba<\/em> and Great Cormorants<\/strong> Phalacrocorax carbo<\/em> roosting), a plastic bird (on the roof of the pavilion) and houses\u2026 \u00a9 Bernhard Seliger<\/p>\n

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Wetlands in and near cities always have to balance between the understandable desire of citizens to enjoy nature close to their home and the necessities for protection. The outcome is often a compromise between both. In South Korea, also the … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":20051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731],"tags":[692],"class_list":["post-20041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plandesign","tag-gangneung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20041"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20059,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20041\/revisions\/20059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}