OFF a busy road with speeding traffic and skyscrapers, malls and tech hubs looming nearby, Gurugram has a forest, a real one with native trees, grasses, birds, jackals, the hare and a nilgai. It’s called the Aravali Biodiversity Park and it recreates the original rugged Aravali landscape which the city had virtually stamped out.
The park used to be a degraded mining site riddled with encroachments, cattle and garbage. Then a citizens’ group, I Am Gurgaon (IAG), determined to give the city a forest, a green breathing space, worked for eight years to restore and rewild. . .
