Biodiversity reaches DU

NEW DELHI: Delhi University will soon get its very own mini biodiversity park. A five-acre untended land is being shaped into undulated bio-park to draw various species of butterflies, insects, birds and small animals. The land is surrounded by the university's hostels and is centrally located.
The university School of Environmental Studies has assigned the job onto the their grand oldman, former pro vice chancellor CR Babu.On Saturday evening, the workaholic ecologist par excellence, "Professor Babu", was found standing tall near an artificial wetland in the wasteland supervising the earth-mover machineman where to slide the landmass, and where to even it up as surface.
"We will construct a sloping meadow so that the rain water doesn't stagnate, flows down to the wetland. The water level is about a foot at present, as the time will wear on, it will fill up. A few fingerlin fishes will be released to draw birds. Who knows, you might even see a few migratory ones, choosing to hibernate here," Babu says.
Already about 40 tall tree families, comprising 500 species, have been planted round the envisioned boundary of the park. With planned undulations shaping in time into a towering woodland, strollers will find pleasant canopies all around the five-acre park.
About 150 species of avenue trees have been planted at ideally located spots. The mini bio-park has been envisioned in the Revised Master Plan of Delhi. Future and current students, who are the targeted beneficiaries of the park, will get a first-hand education on how lifeforms grow in woodlands and biodiversity be created.