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Mt. Kuwol Natural Reserve of DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The Mt. Kuwol natural reserve in the central part of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was inscribed on the list of international sanctuaries according to the decision of the 18th meeting of the International Coordinating Council for Man and Biosphere Programme of the UNESCO held in Paris on October 29. The reserve, which abounds with flora and fauna and is endowed with beautiful scenery, includes Mt. Kuwol, one of the six famous mountains in Korea, an agricultural area and a migratory bird sanctuary in Unryul.
    Growing in the reserve are more than 600 species of plants including pine, oak, chestnut, gingko, Evodia daniellii and Fagara schinifolia and various species of shrubs and vine plants. Among them are 86 species of arbor.
    It also has a rich flora as northern and southern plants are growing there.
    One can see Abies nephrolipis, Picea jezoensis, Pinus koraiensis growing in the upper part of Mt. Kuwol, Elaeagnus umbellata, zelokova, silk-tree, Smilax china, caragana and others in the waist and at the foot of the mountain and Forsythia ovata, indigenous to Korea, in deep valleys.
    Also thriving in the mountain are over 90 species of edible herbs including aralia shoots, broad bellflower and Aster scaber, and 30-odd medicinal herbs including astragalus and Bupleurum scorzoneraefolium.
    Meanwhile, there are in the reserve more than 30 special sunspecies of animals including Korean water-deer, wild boar, hare, fox, hedgehog, squirrel, and some 100 species of useful birds including black woodpecker, green woodpecker, broad-billed roller, pheasant, fern owl and scops owl.
    More than 30 kinds of fish including Moroco oxycephalus, minnow and bullhead, hundreds of species of butterflies including yellow swallowtail, Apatura ilia schifferiiller, and some useful insects including red ant live in the reserve.
    There is a habitat for Rana coreana of Mt. Kuwol.
    The abundant and useful animal and plant resources of the Mt. Kuwol natural reserve have been well protected and propagated thanks to the correct nature-protecting policy of the Workers' Party of Korea.