{"id":194359,"date":"2022-07-06T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=194359"},"modified":"2022-07-06T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:32:47","slug":"restoring-banni-grasslands-gujarat-battles-invasive-tree-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/restoring-banni-grasslands-gujarat-battles-invasive-tree-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring Banni grasslands, Gujarat battles invasive tree species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cRestoring Banni grasslands, Gujarat battles invasive tree species\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 6th July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gujarat forest department plans to restore 10,000 hectares of the Banni grasslands in the coming year and every year in the coming decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are Banni Grasslands?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banni Grassland is situated near the Great Rann of Kutch in Gujarat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">constitutes about 4.33% of the total geographical area of Gujarat distributed in eight districts and three different climatic regions \u2014 Kutch, Saurashtra and central Gujarat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banni grassland was declared a Protected Forest in 1955, under the Indian Forest Act, 1927.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grasslands have native trees like Acacia nilotica, Salvadora persica and Capparis decidua which are protected under Section 26 in the Indian Forest Act, 1927.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banni also has sensitive soil ecology where the sweet soil rests on salinity only 2 to 3 meters below the ground and any disturbance of the soil brings up salinity destroying the rich productivity of the land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/banni-grasslands-ngt-upholds-rights-of-maldharis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Click Here to read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the threats faced by Banni Grassland?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The landscape of Banni has shown drastic changes with the deterioration of the grassland taking place due to <strong>1)<\/strong> Heavy uncontrolled grazing, <strong>2)<\/strong> Widespread ingress of <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-to-save-banni-grasslandsfrom-invasive-species-heres-what-a-new-study-suggests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prosopis Juliflora<\/a> (a harmful exotic tree species), <strong>3)<\/strong> Dams constructed on rivers flowing towards Banni, <strong>4)<\/strong> Periodic occurrence of droughts and <strong>5)<\/strong> Continuous increase in soil salinity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cRestoring Banni grasslands, Gujarat battles invasive tree species\u201d published in Indian Express on 6th July 2022. What is the News? The Gujarat forest department plans to restore 10,000 hectares of the Banni grasslands in the coming year and every year in the coming decade. 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