Caohai Lake

Caohai Lake is a characteristic water-body arranged in the Northwest Guizhou Province, of Southwest China. The lake is arranged on the Weining Mountain, at the edges of Weining County. Caohai Village lies specifically at the edge of the wetland. The lake's unique zone was 4,666.2 square kilometers 1,801.6 sq mi. Be that as it may, because of seepage, development and atmosphere changes amid the most recent decades, the lake zone has contracted to just 5 km² 1.9 sq mi. Its normal profundity is of 2 m 6 ft 7 in and its height 2,200 m 7,200 ft above ocean level. Since 1985, the zone around the lake comprises a nature save at common dimension, and since 1992, at national dimension.

Cao Hai Nature Reserve is an Important Bird Area. The save region is 120 km² 46 sq mi. The lake territory is the biggest and most critical wetland of Southwest China, giving wintering spot of dark necked cranes, the main level crane left on the planet. Additionally, the lake is likewise occupied by 184 winged creature species, including regular cranes, hooded cranes, white storks, dark storks, bar-headed geese, brilliant birds, eastern supreme falcons, white-followed ocean hawks and bronzed shelducks. The frog Rana weiningensis is endemic to this area. An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area IBA is a zone distinguished utilizing a universally concurred set of criteria as being all inclusive imperative for the protection of feathered creature populaces.