This document outlines the members of a group project and provides details about the Yamuna Biodiversity Park in Delhi, India. It discusses the park's origins, features, zones, and goals of protecting biodiversity and the Yamuna River basin. Key points include that the park was created on formerly flooded land near the Yamuna River, it contains different habitat zones like wetlands and forests, and its aims are conservation, education, and providing green space for the community.

2. GROUP MEMBERS
• Shivam pal
• Ayush Anchalia
• Gaurav Khurana
•Andeep Singh
• Lavanaya Singh
•Kanha Dixit
• Abhinav Submitted To:Mr.Manish ,
Shyamlal(eve.) college

3. Contents
1. Reasons for Decline of Biodiversity
2. Importance of Biodiversity
3. Location and Access to the Yamuna
Biodiversity Park
4. Origin and Salient Features of the park
5. Zones of the park
6. Contour map
7. Landscape plan
8. Design features of the park

4. What is Biodiversity
• Biodiversity can be simply defined as the
total diversity and variability of living
things ,plants ,animals, microbes and
Of the places where they live in.

5. Reasons for decline of biodiversity
Urbanized areas:-
• Habitat loss
• Direct human impacts
• Indirect Human impacts
• Species introduction
• Harvesting, Hunting and poaching
• Sports hunting
• Commercial Hunting
• Pollution climate change

6. Why Biodiversity park?
• The loss of biological diversity is at grave
threat .
• To counter global climate change.
• Sustainable physical and social
environment for improving quality of life.
• Conservation and Development of the
Natural features.
• To protect the ground water recharge zones
and enhance its capacity.

8. Significance of Biodiversity park
• Bio reserve
• As a water replenish zone
• Temperature regulator
• Dust Trapper
• Regional park for the people

9. Aim of Yamuna Biodiversity
park
• To protect and sustain the
Biodiversity.
• to protect the natural drainage of
river Yamuna in Delhi.
• To provide regional level open and
green spaces.
• To protect the ground recharge zones
like river Yamuna and Ridge

10. Origin and salient features of the
site
• This park is located close to river Yamuna, Jharoda,
Wazirabad.
• Actually 1km away from the main stream of Yamuna but still
in its Basin.
• It was a part of the flood plain during some 30-40 years
back.
• DDA acquired land in 2001-2002 and planned biodiversity
park in 2003
• The area is low lying used to get seasonally flooded and long
spell of standing water has turned soil more saline
• For developing park two pronged strategies were adopted
physical and biological interventions

11. Physical Intervention
• To deal with localized flooding
terrain was modified by creating
wasteland and marshes
• Mounds were created for
leaching soil of excess salt and
make niches for Biodiversity

12. Biological Intervention
• Biological inputs for improving
habitat quality.
• farms yard manure, vermi compost
leaf mould etc were provided
• Leguminous species and some other
characteristic grass were introduced

13. Importance of Yamuna Biodiversity
park
• Emerging as the capital’s most visited public
place.
• Prominent centre for learning and understanding
the environment .
• Home for biologically rich wetlands, grassland
communities.
• A wide variety of fruit yielding species and an
abundance of medicinal herbs.
• The park also comprises a native flora and fauna
which used to exist a 100 years ago and then
became extinct locally.

14. Important Features of the site
• Ten mounds which illustrate different forest ecosystems found in the
Yamuna basin.
• Structure and composition is done in such a way to give it a natural
view and environment.
• The soil for mounds were brought from a digging wasteland and
reservoirs.
• Different species of grass and shrubs were planted for soil better
holding and for increasing biomass.
• Different ecosystems such as deciduous forest, evergreen forest , sub-tropical
evergreen, moist tropical deciduous forest etc.
• Broad divisions are bambuselum , nature Interpretation center,
conservatory of fruit yielding species, wetland for migratory birds
and the nature reserve area.

15. Zoning of park
• The front portion of the Yamuna Biodiversity park, a
220m southward and 140m northward stretch from the
main entry gate with 20-30m width is demarcated as .
• Domesticated Biodiversity Zone. enclosed by a hedge of
popular, it features plants like Ailanthus Butea and
Bauhinia .
• The outer iron fencing is embraced by multi coloured
climbers like Jasmine and Quisqualis .
• The conservatory of fruit yielding species .
• The migratory duck’s wetland .
• The Nature Reserve area.
• Nature Interpretation center.

16. Nature Reserve zone
• 20 different biotic communities are being
developed in 50 hectare.
• Massive plantation has been started.
• Some biotic communities have got
developed and biodiversity can be seen.

17. Wetlands
• Three wetlands are have been created, one is
narrow and 1.8km simulating river and the
other one is wide open and deep spreading
over 2 hectares.
• It was created to serve as a habitat of aquatic
life and serve the purpose of ecologically
water purification, groundwater recharge,
storage of rainwater and help in controlling
flood.

18. Other special areas are
• Nurseries
• Amphitheratre
• Poly houses
• Orchards
• Acacia grasslands
• 750m long drain from Jagatpur village
• Rose Garden

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