Migrating birds, forests thriving in China's coastal city (5)

Birds stay at the temporary habitats converted from fishing ponds during the high tide at Tiaozini wetland in Dongtai city, Yancheng city, East China's Jiangsu province, in Feb 2023. [Photo by Sun Jialu/for chinadaily.com.cn]

"Besides, we have rented more fish ponds of 720 mu (48 hectares) and converted them into temporary habitats for shorebirds when the tidelands are submerged by the seawater," Lyu added.

Around only 20 minutes' drive away the bird sanctuary, in the Yellow Sea Forest Park, stretches of saline-alkali land with no end in sight in the past are covered by lush trees with hard work of many generations.