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Contribution in ecological restoration and conservation efforts
Urbanization is a major cause of both loss of bio-diversity and climate change. While cities with suitable habitats and conservation policies may support local high biodiversity levels,this important aspect has actually lost attention of the Governments keeping in view the complexity involved in governing and managing large cities.
Cities comprise of mixed green patches vary in size and are highly scattered and disconnected. Although small green spaces largely dominate the city landscape, the roles they play often goes unnoticed and , as such ,are often neglected by City Governments, naturalist and conservationists, alike as , they do not fulfil the large green spaces criteria. As such, the onus of taking care of these fragmented and isolated habitat patches, which are the signature landscape of most cities, lies with the neighborhood residents. These habitats are heterogeneous and can vary in both shapes and sizes. Regardless of the size, they support biodiversity and provide a range of ecosystem services to the community. In a step towards this, initiative was to create a Model for Functional Urban Neighborhood Micro Diversity Zone
in Arid Waste lands in Jammu Cíty.