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Progress of biodiversity parks reviewed

Staff Reporter

Problems of encroachment, security and cattle menace comes up for discussion

NEW DELHI: The progress of the two biodiversity parks being developed in the Capital now by the Delhi Development Authority was reviewed by its Vice-Chairman Dinesh Rai at the first Executive Committee meeting of the Biodiversity Foundation here on Friday.

At the meeting, which was attended by DDA's Engineer Member, Finance Member and other senior officials, C.R. Babu of the Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystem (CEMDE), who is in charge of both projects, and his team made a presentation on the projects. The problems of encroachment, security and cattle menace were also discussed at the meeting and necessary directions were issued to address these issues.

A fall-out of the projects undertaken in the Capital, the meeting was informed, had been that Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra had also emulated them. While five such projects have been undertaken in Madhya Pradesh, two have been taken up by Maharashtra.

The presentation also gave the details of the progress made in both the biodiversity parks and informed that in Yamuna Biodiversity Park a large number of migratory birds were also seen in winters and around a thousand are present and nesting there.

It was also mentioned that about 300 acres of land has been acquired in the second phase of the project and landscaping and designing work would be taken up shortly. The wetlands created at the Yamuna Biodiversity Park had enhanced the bird population and would make it one of the best bird sanctuaries in the country, the presentation said, adding that an international organisation had also listed it as one of the sites of International Bird Area.

Moreover, with the kind of progress that the project has seen, the Biodiversity Foundation was informed that United Nations Voluntary Group would also be visiting the Yamuna Biodiversity Park shortly.

As for the Aravali Biodiversity Park, the meeting was informed that plantation is in progress and residents' welfare associations ad non-government organisations and schools have been involved in the project. Besides, environment camps are also being organised there in collaboration with NGOs and schools.

The meeting was informed that a decision had been taken to improve the nurseries in these biodiversity parks.

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