From the archive, swipe left for more. 1/ A young sapling recently planted in the Kubuqi Desert Park, an eco-tourism park. The park has a 5-star hotel, lakes, a golf course and a variety of activities such as camels and off-road desert cars for visitors to ride on. 2/ The Kubuqi Desert lies to the north of Ordos Plateau in Inner Mongolia and is the seventh-largest desert in China. It was one of the three primary sources of sandstorms that would engulf the Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei areas and was known locally as the ‘Dune of Death’. Today the ochre sands of Kubuqi are a scene of greenery, home to around 100 species of plants and wild animals through a tree-planting program driven by a local self-made industrial billionaire, Wang Wenbiao. 3/Nearly 20 per cent of China is desert, and drought across the northern region is getting worse. One recent estimate said China had 21,000 square miles more desert than what existed in 1975. As the Tengger desert expands, it merges with two other deserts to form a vast sea of sand that could become uninhabitable. #desertification #greengreatwall #china https://www.instagram.com/p/CU7m08lJo_S/?utm_medium=tumblr
