Asia Album: Scenery of Beddagana Wetland Park in Kotte, Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Beddagana Wetland Park, sitting on an 18-hectare area about 3 km east of the Colombo commercial hub in Sri Lanka, provides a home for a wide variety of wetland birds, butterflies, dragonflies, fish and various animals.

Within the park, there are natural water ponds, marshy areas, seasonally flooding grasslands and pockets of shrub that support high species diversity including endemic and threatened animal and plant species.