Eco Parks

Eco Parks

Subject :Government schemes

Context: As part of the ongoing efforts of the Coal Ministry to develop Eco-Parks on reclaimed land and to promote mine tourism eight eco-parks have been constructed recently in different parts of the country and two more such parks will be completed in 2022-23.

Concept:

• An ecological park is a green space that is characterized by its special care of vegetation, ecosystems and the species that inhabit it.
• Eco Parks are large, connected landscapes with high nature conservation and environmental protection ambitions.
• They are parks which use ecological landscape features to reduce watering and other maintenance while enhancing wildlife and human values.
• Eco Parks serve as a vehicle for reconnection, and for developing the systems understandings necessary for creative and resilient problem-solving.
• An Eco Park is not just about preservation, but also about restoring nature conservation and a large-scale transformation of both the social and environmental landscapes.
• The main objective of the ecological parks is to serve as protection for the ecosystems they host and to raise awareness in the population about the importance of preserving the environment, making the population familiar with the nature that develops there.

Advantages of eco park 

• Landscapes have ecological value
• Ecological design reduces resource inputs and waste outputs.
• Eco parks allow us to see and interact with the ecological riches that formal parks hide.
• Ecological and social concerns are in increasing conflation;  modelling new expressions of the human relationship to nature provides solutions to both ecological and social problems and concerns.
• Sequestration of carbon emissions as well as in the preservation of plant species and the leisure of people. This carbon sequestration helps reduce the effects of climate change and by housing different species of animals, plant species and fungi, they help to conserve biodiversity on our planet.