| Gotjawal forest in Jeju, South Korea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotjawal_forest Gotjawal forest covers about 12% of the total area of Jeju Island. Gotjawal forest is a home to Fairy Pitta and Paradise Flycatcher. To introduce this ecology to the other country, I have created an article -Gotjawal forest-on english Wikipedia. Please have a look at this article. Yong-chang Jang yongchangjang@hotmail.com It goes... Gotjawal forest refers to the forest covering the rocky area of "AA Lava[1] " on Jeju-do Island off South Korea’s southwestern coast. Traditionally, Jeju-do’s local residents called any forest "Gotjawal" when such a forest was found in rocky areas, and therefore difficult to cultivate, and so remained undisturbed by people. According to the Jeju Dialect Dictionary (Jeju P. G., 1995), "Gotjawal" is an unmanaged and unapproachable forest of mixed trees and bushes. But Song suggested giving a new meaning to the term "Gotjawal" in his Ph.D. dissertation (Song, 2000). He suggested that as the Korean term "Gotjawal" shows specifically the feature of AA Lava[2] , using the term "Gotjawal Lava" instead of "AA Lava[3]" can be useful in land management and in groundwater management. In another study (Song, 2003,), he also asserted that protecting the Gotjawal area on Jeju is essential to protecting the island’s groundwater, as rain water penetrates directly into the groundwater aquifer in this Gotjawal area through cracks in this region’s rocky earth. ................... |
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