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Miyawaki forest being cultivated on 20 cents in Port Museum compound in Alappuzha
The district can’t boast of a jungle teeming with wildlife. It is a land with no wilderness. The solely exception is a 14.5 acres of land at Veeyapuram, a proposed reserve forest, which is dwelling to a small quantity of plant and animal species and some personal forests in small tracts of land.
But issues are altering. The Alappuzha municipal space sandwiched between the Arabian sea and Vembanad Lake is ready to host a mini-forest in the close to future. The Kerala Development and Innovation Strategy Council ({K}-DISC) has joined fingers with a consortium involving Thiruvananthapuram-based Nature’s Green Guardians Foundation, Culture Shoppe and Invis Multimedia to create a forest on 20 cents of land on the premises of Port Museum, which is being set up as half of the Heritage Project, utilizing the Miyawaki technique.
As half of creating the mini-forest, 3,200 saplings of 100 species shall be planted there. “As the population increases, natural resources are depleting. Our aim is to reinstate the green cover where there is a deficiency of it. Using this model of intense foresting will increase biodiversity and create an ecosystem. Planting operations are in progress and in three years it will take the shape of a dense forest,” says Hari Prabhakaran, Director, Nature’s Green Guardians Foundation.
Majority of the saplings being planted are of indigenous species. They embrace medicinal and fruit-bearing vegetation. Apart from supporting native wildlife, the mini-forest will assist in sequestration of carbon. The land for planting saplings was ready by including cow dung and different natural fertilizers to the soil in a bid to make it extra fertile.
Miyawaki is a method launched by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki that revolutionised city afforestation by creating dense and native forests. It includes planting a number of native species in a small space and making it a self-sustaining inexperienced area in three to 4 years.
The {K}-DISC is funding the programme.
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