The forestry authority lists rice germplasm and a production area among the values of Guangnan’s Babao Provincial Nature Reserve, alongside karst landforms, waterfall hydrology and aquatic communities. The pairing places cultivated resources within the reserve’s ecological and geological picture.
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Babao Rice in a Karst Reserve
Babao rice is named among the values of a reserve that also protects karst, waterfall hydrology and aquatic communities.
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A landscape of water and cultivation
In this karst setting, landforms, water and aquatic habitats share the same conservation landscape as rice production. Babao rice gives that relationship a human scale: fields are part of the protected region’s lived watershed and its food-growing work.