India’s first Pollinator park

The Uttarakhand forest department on December 29, 2020 dedicated the newly built Pollinator Park to the public.

  • The pollinators park was inaugurated by noted lepidopterist Peter Smetacek, from Butterfly Research Centre Bhimtal
  • The forest department claimed it to be the country’s first Pollinator park, spread over 4 acres in Haldwani in Nainital district.
  • The Pollinator park has more than 40 pollinator species with displays on the mechanism of pollination of plant species by various species of butterflies, honeybees, birds, insects, moths, beetles, wasps, and small mammals.

(Source: HT)

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