Yakushima（屋久岛）

Yakushima（屋久岛）is one of the Osumi Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture，Japan.Administratively，the whole island is the town of Yakushima.The majority of the island is within the borders of the Kirishima-Yaku National Park.In 1980 an area of 18958 hectares was designated as a Man and the Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.In 1993，10 hectares of wetland at Nagata-hama was designated a Ramsar Site.It is the largest nesting ground for the endangered loggerhead sea turtle in the North Pacific.Yakushima's unique remnant of warm/temperate ancient forest has been a natural World Heritage Site since 1993.In the wilderness core area（12.19 square kilometres（3010 acres）of the World Heritage Site，no record of past tree cutting can be traced.The island is visited by 300000 tourists every year.

屋久岛的大部分都在雾岛屋久国立公园的边界内。1980年，18958公顷的土地被联合国教科文组织列为人与生物圈保护区。1993年，长田滨的10公顷湿地被指定为拉姆萨尔湿地。它是北太平洋最大的濒危红海龟筑巢地。屋久岛独特的暖温带古老森林遗迹自1993年以来一直是世界自然遗产。(https://www.daowen.com)