Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 19: Biodiversity awareness initiative today completed its 10 year long journey of natural heritage interpretation in the city of temples Jammu.
While sharing inputs O P Sharma IFS Retd, founder of Tree Talk in J&K shared that only tree in Kashmir is Giant Redwood tree Sequiodendron giganteum at Tangmarg Kashmir and only tree in Jammu is Haldu Tree Haldina cordifolia in Forest Guards Training School Doomi Akhnoor, one Tree we lost from Khasi Meghalya India is Sterculia khasiana, another almost extinct tree from Nilgiris is Ilex gardeneriana, endemic trees of India include Red Sanders Pterocarpus santalinus, Memecylon bourdelloni, Madhuca diplostemon, Cynometra beddomei, Litsea beddomei, Litsea bourdillonii, Dipterocarpus bourdillonii. In J&K unique trees like Myrica esculenta, Olea paniculata, Itea nutans, Prunus cerasoides, Symplocos paniculata need inclusion in forest nurseries and reforestation programmes.Sacred groves at Chandigam, Choontwalivar, Kangan Kashmir, Jatwal, Chadei, Baba Goran in Jammu are fine examples of community conservation. |
