Many regions across the globe located along the Tropic of Cancer are arid deserts, yet Dinghu Mountain National Nature Reserve in Zhaoqing, Guangdong province, stands as an ecological outlier with a 98 percent forest coverage rate.

As China's first national nature reserve, this primeval forest — referred to as the "Green Pearl on the Tropic of Cancer Desert Belt" — harbors 2,291 species of higher plants and 277 species of birds, and the groundbreaking scientific achievements made in the reserve have revolutionized global understanding of forest carbon sequestration.

Source：China Daily
Editor：Wu Di