The Xianghua Science Popularization & Education Center of Bird Ecology was opened at Xianghua Village, Tangdong Subdistrict, Zixing City, Chenzhou on May 22, which marks the International Biodiversity Day. It is also a base for biodiversity protection.
This center integrating science popularization, study and tourism showcases the origin, habits, specimen, images of birds and videos of bird ecology. It will be opened to the public in an orderly manner.
The center is only the first phase of the project of Chenzhou Biodiversity Conservation Association. Later, a 10-sqaure kilometer wetland biodiversity conservation area will be built with the migration route of migrant birds and their habitat in Xianghua Village as the center.
A protection base involving science population halls for animals, plants and microorganisms, a venue for out-of-school labor practice of primary and secondary school students, and an ecological hall for wellness and leisure will be built gradually.
Once completed, an ecotourism network integrating protection, science popularization, study, leisure and wellness will be formed, in a bid to make positive contributions to accelerating the construction of 100-billion-yuan cultural tourism industry and building Chenzhou into an internationally-famous tourist destination in the new era.