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Birds are visual treat, indicate rich biodiversity of wetland
Next time when these birds visit the park again it would be a better place as the plants which they feed on would be full grown by then, he says.
Next time when these birds visit the park again it would be a better place as the plants which they feed on would be full grown by then, he says.
"We are working towards building a park that reflects the exceptionally rich biodiversity Delhi once had along the river Yamuna," he says.
All along its path the river Yamuna supports diverse forest systems and rich natural heritage that have helped human development in the region, an environmental researcher, Faiyaz A Khudsar says.
"Besides preservation of biotic communities and hundred of species that used to thrive in the past, it would help restore many ecological services and goods," he says.
"Plants do not grow in isolation... They need supporting plant species in their vicinity to keep their gene pool pure and intact," he says.
Terming biodiversity parks as the blueprints for environmental security, particularly for urban areas, he says "first of its kind, the park, would substitute a functional ecosystem that inlcudes assemblages of plants, animals and microbes, interacting together and with the surrounding."
Maintaining that wetland is only one component of the biodiversity park, scientific officer for the project, Dr Anupam Joshi, said "other components such as grass lands, acacia woodlands, mix deciduous forest, teak forests, sal and bamboo forests, living gene bank, and nature interpretation centre would take time."
