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Tulip Festival in Istanbul feasts Turks' eyes on colorful flowers

STORY: Tulip Festival in Istanbul feasts Turks' eyes on colorful flowers DATELINE: April 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:52 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Turkey CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of Tulip Festival in Emirgan Park 2. various of Tulip Festival STORYLINE: The annual Tulip Festival in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, attracted on Monday flocks of people to the city's parks and gardens to enjoy a colorful sea of flowers featuring unique designs by botanists. Some 7.5 million flowers of 160 different species, such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and muscaris, have been planted in Istanbul's parks, gardens and streets for the 2022 festival. The Emirgan Park, one of the largest public parks in Istanbul, has distinguished itself as the main hub of the festival by virtue of its more than 3.5 million bulbous plants on display. Outstanding floral designs in the park, located on a hill along the European coast of the Bosphorus Strait, include a giant tulip stream, a traditional Turkish evil eye be

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TURKEY-ISTANBUL-TULIP FESTIVAL

(220425) -- ISTANBUL, April 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People visit a park during the Tulip Festival in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 25, 2022. The annual Tulip Festival in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, attracted on Monday flocks of people to the city's parks and gardens to enjoy a colorful sea of flowers featuring unique designs by botanists. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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TURKEY-ISTANBUL-TULIP FESTIVAL

(220425) -- ISTANBUL, April 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A woman looks at tulips at a park in Istanbul, Turkey, April 25, 2022. The annual Tulip Festival in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, attracted on Monday flocks of people to the city's parks and gardens to enjoy a colorful sea of flowers featuring unique designs by botanists. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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TURKEY-ISTANBUL-TULIP FESTIVAL

(220425) -- ISTANBUL, April 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People visit a park during the Tulip Festival in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 25, 2022. The annual Tulip Festival in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, attracted on Monday flocks of people to the city's parks and gardens to enjoy a colorful sea of flowers featuring unique designs by botanists. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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TURKEY-ISTANBUL-TULIP FESTIVAL

(220425) -- ISTANBUL, April 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People walk past blooming tulips at a park in Istanbul, Turkey, April 25, 2022. The annual Tulip Festival in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, attracted on Monday flocks of people to the city's parks and gardens to enjoy a colorful sea of flowers featuring unique designs by botanists. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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TURKEY-ISTANBUL-TULIP FESTIVAL

(220425) -- ISTANBUL, April 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A woman walks amid blooming tulips at a park in Istanbul, Turkey, April 25, 2022. The annual Tulip Festival in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, attracted on Monday flocks of people to the city's parks and gardens to enjoy a colorful sea of flowers featuring unique designs by botanists. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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TURKEY-ISTANBUL-TULIP FESTIVAL

(220425) -- ISTANBUL, April 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Blooming tulips are seen at a park in Istanbul, Turkey, April 25, 2022. The annual Tulip Festival in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, attracted on Monday flocks of people to the city's parks and gardens to enjoy a colorful sea of flowers featuring unique designs by botanists. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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TURKEY-ISTANBUL-TULIP FESTIVAL

(220425) -- ISTANBUL, April 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People take photos of blooming tulips at a park in Istanbul, Turkey, April 25, 2022. The annual Tulip Festival in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, attracted on Monday flocks of people to the city's parks and gardens to enjoy a colorful sea of flowers featuring unique designs by botanists. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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Rare plant species blossoms in NW China after "disappearing" for over a hundred years

STORY: Rare plant species blossoms in NW China after "disappearing" for over a hundred years DATELINE: April 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:35 LOCATION: XI'AN, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of students and teachers observing the Primula filchnerae 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHU SHA, Teacher of Yuandong Experimental Primary School 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHANG YING, Senior researcher of Shaanxi Xi'an Botanical Garden 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): ZHANG YING, Senior researcher of Shaanxi Xi'an Botanical Garden STORYLINE: Primula filchnerae is considered as one of the most endangered species from northwest China's Shaanxi Province. For over a hundred years, it had been believed to be extinct in the wild. After its rediscovery in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi in 2015, the species has been preserved thanks to the rescue work made by botanists. In autumn 2021, researchers planted Primula filchnerae in an elementary school in Xi'an to help the students further understand the characteristics of the spe

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CHINA-XINJIANG-TIANSHAN-BOOK-RELEASE (CN)

(220327) -- URUMQI, March 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on Aug. 3, 2013 shows Pan Borong, a scientist, doing investigation on the plants of the Tianshan Mountains in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Botanists in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have published a book on vascular plants in the Tianshan Mountains. The book, Vascular Plant Checklist of Tianshan, introduces 6,784 wild vascular plants belonging to 924 genera and 117 families in the Tianshan Mountains, according to the Botanical Society of Xinjiang. TO GO WITH "Book on vascular plants in Tianshan Mountains released" (Xinhua)

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CHINA-XINJIANG-TIANSHAN-BOOK-RELEASE (CN)

(220327) -- URUMQI, March 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on July 19, 2019 shows Hai Ying (1st L), a scientist, doing investigation on the plants of the Tianshan Mountains in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Botanists in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have published a book on vascular plants in the Tianshan Mountains. The book, Vascular Plant Checklist of Tianshan, introduces 6,784 wild vascular plants belonging to 924 genera and 117 families in the Tianshan Mountains, according to the Botanical Society of Xinjiang. TO GO WITH "Book on vascular plants in Tianshan Mountains released" (Xinhua)

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CHINA-XINJIANG-TIANSHAN-BOOK-RELEASE (CN)

(220327) -- URUMQI, March 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on May 11, 2015 shows Nurbay Abdusalih, a scientist, doing investigation on the plants of the Tianshan Mountains in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Botanists in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have published a book on vascular plants in the Tianshan Mountains. The book, Vascular Plant Checklist of Tianshan, introduces 6,784 wild vascular plants belonging to 924 genera and 117 families in the Tianshan Mountains, according to the Botanical Society of Xinjiang. TO GO WITH "Book on vascular plants in Tianshan Mountains released" (Xinhua)