Biodiversity Parks

Faunal Diversity: Different forest communities of YBP offer multiple micro-niches and habitats allowing many animal species to come, survive and breed. Today, the Yamuna Biodiversity harbour 2000 species of plants and animals living in some 20-25 biotic communities having 3 trophic levels and diverse food web including 60 species of butterflies, 50 species of dragon and damselflies, 200 species of birds and mammalian herbivores and carnivores. The Park has attracted a specialist herbivore – Barking deer and a top carnivore – the Leopard suggesting that ecosystem is functional. The mosaic of wetlands is home for hundreds of resident and migratory birds. The green cover together with large water reservoir buffers the ambient temperature and also influences the local weather patterns. The wetlands which are already functional harbour luxuriant aquatic vegetation, phyto- and zooplanktons and fishes. These floral and faunal features of the wetland offer food base for the resident and migratory ducks. Wetlands of YBP attract more than 5000 migratory ducks from Siberia, central Asia and Europe, each year in winters. In a span of just 14years, this highly degraded area has been turned into a lush green forest and wetland ecosystems and the diversity of birds, insects and mammals have increased many folds.