A miniature natural forest is coming up on the floodplains of the polluted Yamuna river in Delhi. The saplings planted are indigenous to the region of Delhi. You can see the forest growing on a drained swamp behind the Sun Dial Park in Sarai Kale Khan in southeast Delhi.
This forest of 700 square metres is being raised by Afforestt, a for-profit venture which grows forests in just three years. It uses a method developed by Dr Akira Miyawaki, a famed Japanese botanist.
The forest is part of a larger effort by the Department of Biotechnology (DoB) to. . .