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The High Moor, Yongneup of Mt. Daeam is a wetland in Korea. Like the meaning of its name 'big rocky mountain', Mt. Daeam (1340m high above sea level) is formed by giant rocks on its top. Nearby the peak of the mountain (1280m high above sea level), there locates a natural wetland called Yongneup. Its coastal length is 210m and its width is 275m. It is the first Korea's wetland that is registered on the list of The Ramsar Convention of Wetlands in 1997.


Characteristics

Yongneup is named as it is because it is a place where dragons rest when they fly up to the sky (Yong means dragon in Korean and neup means wetland). It is the highest moor with peat deposits in South Korea. It is foggy for more than 170 days a year and has a high precipitation. Also, the average annual temperature is 12.2 degree Celsius and it has sub-zero temperature for more than 5 months per year. Due to its climatic condition, Yongneup has peat deposits composed of undecomposed plants and this shows how plants have transformed for a few thousand years. On the average, peat deposits lay 0.5-1mm per year, but Yongneup's deepest peat deposits is 1.5m deep.


Organisms in Yongneup

Animals

  • Korean Fire-bellied Toad (Rana temporaria ornativentris)
  • Goral (Nemorhaedus goral raddeanus)
  • Small-eared Cat (Felis bengalensis manchurica)
  • Marten (Martes flavigula koreana)
  • Flying Squirrel (Pteromys volans)
  • Wild Boar (Sus scrofa creanus)
  • Korean Hare (Lepus sinensis coreanus)
  • Western Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus)
  • Chinese Water Deer (Hydropotes inermis)

Plants

  • Marsh Trefoil (Menyanthes trifoliata)
  • Chickweed Wintergreen (Trientalis europaea)
  • Prairie Sphagnum (Sphagnum palustre)
  • Common Rush (Juncus effusus)
  • Flatleaf Bladderwort (Utricularia intermedia)


References

Ramsar Sites Information Service [1]

'Finding Wetland' by Ministry of Environment Republic of Korea

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