The Odisha Government is planning to bring the Barbara forest on the ecotourism map.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> Ecotourism is defined as responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people, and involves interpretation and education.<\/span><\/p>\n Barbara forest is located near <\/span>Chilika lake in coastal Odisha.<\/b><\/p>\n It is known as <\/span>Asia\u2019s largest Teak and Sal forest.<\/b><\/p>\n Districts: <\/b>The forest touches three districts Khordha, Nayagarh and Ganjam of Odisha.<\/span><\/p>\n Named After:<\/b> The forest is named after a British forest officer’s wife, who was killed in a tiger attack in the area 100-odd years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n Vegetation: <\/b>Barbara forests has patches of tropical semi-evergreen forests that contain many uncommon species of plants, ferns, and herbs which are rare in other forests of Odisha.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Significance:<\/b> It is said to be the <\/span>only forest in India that is guarded by the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) <\/b>for protecting natural resources.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Odisha\u2019s Barbara forest set for an eco-tourism push<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on<\/span> 12th April 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Odisha Government is planning to bring the Barbara forest on the ecotourism map. Note: Ecotourism is defined as responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people, and involves interpretation and education. What is Barbara Forest? Barbara forest is located near Chilika lake… Continue reading Odisha\u2019s Barbara forest set for an eco-tourism push<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-179716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Barbara Forest?<\/b><\/h5>\n