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China 🇨🇳 is building the world´s largest national park system! I had a wonderful visit to Qinghai which is center stage when China is now contsructing the largest national park system in the world. Most spectacular is Sanjiangyuan National Park. It is 190 000 square kilometer, the size of Uganda or England. It’s called “Chinas Water Tower” as it is situated at the source of three of Asia´ s most incredible rivers - The Yellow River, Yangtze and Mekong. Dramatic mountains loom above glaciers, high-altitude wetlands, grasslands, desert plateaus, and mirrored lakes. It was the US which invented national parks. President Theodore Roosevelt said “There is nothing as American as a national park”. Chinas new national park system will be three times larger than the American. So now we can add: There is also nothing as Chinese as a national park. The national parks will help protect the giant panda, tigers, snow leopards, gibbons and many other species. Wonderful! ❤️ More from National Geographic: Https://lnkd.in/eza3v4iB