Osan Creates Climate Change Response Forest in Segyo District

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Osan City announced on the 5th that ecological restoration project at Munheon Neighborhood Park in Sucheong-dong of the Segyo District, which was promoted with 500 million won in national funding, has been recently completed.

The city was selected in the 2019 Ecosystem Conservation Cooperation Fund Return Project public recruitment hosted by the Ministry of Environment, and implemented a sanctuary-type climate change response forest project to promote biodiversity in the area around 580 Sucheong-dong (within Munheon Neighborhood Park).

The Ecosystem Conservation Cooperation Fund Return Project is a project for restoring damaged natural ecosystems, where costs equivalent to the area damaged by development are imposed and collected from developers, which are then used and applied to natural environment conservation projects.

The city restored multi-layered ecological spaces within the city and equipped facilities enabling children to engage in ecological play and learning, thereby raising awareness about the importance of nature conservation.

Taking this project as an opportunity, the city plans to preserve existing forest ecological environments to the maximum extent, and secure spaces where organisms can inhabit, such as climate change response forest with excellent carbon and fine dust reduction capabilities, forest tree observation area, and wildflower observation area, to restore diverse ecosystems and build a healthy urban ecological network.

Kim Sun-tae, head of the city's Parks and Greening Division, said, "We will continuously create forest ecosystems where people can breathe clean air in the city while coexisting and playing with living organisms."