2 new Miyawaki forests planned in SW Delhi
New Delhi, June 27 -- The Delhi government is planning to create two new Miyawaki forests in the heart of southwest Delhi by planting 350,000 saplings of native species, environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said on Thursday.
The forests will be created in Kharkhari Jatmal (2.44 hectares) and Jainpur (4.54 hectares), both near Najafgarh.
"In April the Delhi government announced that it will plant 7 million saplings this year. But there is hardly any new land left where we can carry out large-scale plantations, so Miyawaki forests help in that regard. They allow more saplings to be planted close together, making it a dense urban jungle landscape," Sirsa said. He added that the saplings for the forests will be planted starting from the m...
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