Yamuna Bio Diversity Park Phase II (Delhi)

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This is biodiversity park besides Yamuna Bank, on its western side in the north part of Delhi, India. Yamuna Biodiversity Park
Emerging as the capital's most visited public place and prominent center for learning and understanding the environment, the Yamuna Biodiverstity Park has become a 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. It further, acts as a natural conservation site for specific group of endangered plants. The Yamuna Biodiversity Park is presently spread over an area of approximately 457 acres near Wazirabad village on the flat alluvial plains of the Yamuna.
It is slated to act as a heritage site and repository of approximately 50 threatened species of Yamuna river basin. It will serve as an ideal alternative habitat for migratory and resident bird species. It will also be designed to conserve the wild genetic resources of agricultural crops and enhance ground water recharge and augment fresh water availability. A joint venture project of the Delhi Developmental Authority (DDA) and the Center for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE), Delhi University.