Yamuna

biodiversity
park
information
Emerging as the capital's most visited public place and
prominent center for learning and understanding the
environment, the Yamuna Bio diverstity Park has
become a home for biologically rich wetlands,
grassland communities, a wide variety of fruit yielding
species and an abundance of medicinal herbs.
 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 features two
major zones - the visitor
zone and the nature
reserve zone.
 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 and can be
approached:
 (i) from East Delhi
through
Bhajanpura,
(ii) from South and
Central Delhi
through ISBT, and
(iii) from North Delhi
through Burari. The
Biodiversity Park is
15 kms north-east of
Connaught Place,
and 4 kms north of
ISBT.
 Surrounding the valley are
the Ten Mounds which
illustrate the different forest
ecosystems in its miniature
form found all along the
Yamuna River Basin. The
composition of forests, as in
nature, consists of three to
four layers:
a tree canopy that supports climbers and provides shade for
the middle storey tree layer and shrub layer which in turn
protect the ground-cover of herbs and grasses. Plantation on
these mounds is designed on the basis of the structure and
composition of the forest ecosystem found in its natural
environment. These ecosystems are:
 Subtropical mixed evergreen forest
ecosystem
Top canopy - Toona ciliata, Dalbergia
latifolia, Mitragyna parvifolia, Syzygium
cumini
Middle storey - Trewia nudiflora,
Artocarpus lakoocha, Cinnamomum
camphora,
Shrub layer- Dillenia indica, Coffea
benghalensis, Murraya paniculata,
Bauhinia malabarica,
Herbs and Grasses- Barleria cristata,
Flemingia bracteata, Desmodium triflorum
Climbers- Vigna capensis, Combretum
Moist tropical deciduous forest
ecosystem with Teak as a
dominant species
Top Canopy- Tectona grandis,
Pterocarpus marsupium,
Diospyros melanoxylon,
Middle storey- Buchanania
lanzan, Albizia lebbeck,
Bauhinia variegata
Tropical dry deciduous forest
ecosystem with Sal as a
dominant species
Tropical Dry Deciduous forest
with Teak as a dominant
species
Tropical thorn forest
Scrub jungle
 G.D.GOENKA PUBLIC SCHOOL
EAST DELHI

Prepared by the students of Class

VIII