Japan-Korea-China
Jointly Event on Asian Wetlands Week

On December 24-27 2004, "Japan-Korea-China Jointly Event on Asian Wetlands Week" was organized in Dafeng City, Jiangsu Province, China. The Dafeng Wetland, Ramsar site, is famous by its success for reintroducing Pere David's deer an endemic deer once has been extinct. 　　Forty eight children from China, Korea, and Japan participated in the event.−Forty from China; Yueyang (Dongtinghu), Dafeng, Macao, five from Korea; Pusan, Seoul, three from Japan; Hokkaido, Shiga, Okinawa. They had a lot of fun telling each other about their local wetlands and sharing what they had learned in the Wetlands Exchange Program.

Children and teachers assembled from three countries.	Mina Joo(Age:12) from Pusan, Korea.
Reimi Kawamura(Age:11) from Hokkaido, Japan.	Xu Mo(Age:12) from Dafeng, China.
Mr. Zhu Zaibao from Yueyang(Dongtinghu), China. Teachers gave presentations about the education of wetlands.	Prof. Woo-Shin Lee from Seoul National University , Korea.

All the participants signed on "Message of Children and Teachers on the Wetland Conservation and Education−Dafeng, China, 2004 "

Please click the picture to see the statement.

Mr. Musha, Vice-President of RCJ, gave a speech at Ceremony on Dafeng Nature Reserve to join Migratory Shorebirds Network Sites of East Asian-Australasian Flyway.	Wetland International-China, Middle School of Dafeng City, Jiangsu Province and Dafeng National Nature Reserve cooperated to establish the school as a Wetlands Experimental School.
Children from three countries planted friendship trees in Dafeng Nature Reserve.	Making themselves understood using Chinese Caracters.
We watched many Pere David's deers in Dafeng Nature Reserve.	Pere David'a Deer （Photo：June 2004）

Children brought pictorial or calligraphic works with them to exhibit.	Children from Korea painted pictures of waterfowls. Their works are all wonderful and unique.
Children from China painted very fine pictures on clothes.	Dynamic works painted in Chinese ink with brush.
Watching the works made by children from Macao.	Exchanging address with each other.
Showing the place of Dongtinghu where they come from.	The map was signed by all the participations took part in "Japan/Korea/China Jointly Event on Asian Wetlands Week " in last three years.

Participants from three countries. "Thank you very much! See you again!"

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