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About Kishan Bagh

Jaipur Development Authority restored and rewilded a sprawling set of dunes that had come to a standstill at the southwestern foot of Nahargarh. Here we brought back all the plants that one might expect to find here if it was truly a natural wilderness. It is called Kishan Bagh Sand Dune Park.

The central focus of the Park is the natural shrubland known in Marwari as ‘Roee’, a native shrubland ‘jungle’ that is unrecognized and unappreciated and often treated as a ‘wasteland’ that needs to be rescued by feeding it water and encouraging agriculture.

Jaipur Development Authority restored and rewilded a sprawling set of dunes that had come to a standstill at the southwestern foot of Nahargarh. Here we brought back all the plants that one might expect to find here if it was truly a natural wilderness. It is called Kishan Bagh Sand Dune Park.

The central focus of the Park is the natural shrubland known in Marwari as ‘Roee’, a native shrubland ‘jungle’ that is unrecognized and unappreciated and often treated as a ‘wasteland’ that needs to be rescued by feeding it water and encouraging agriculture.

Why Kishan Bagh?

Kishan Bagh gives an opportunity to the visitors to observe the flora and fauna that you can expect to find in natural dunes in India’s western desert. We did a careful re-introduction of the plants and trees, even the small grasses and micro-organisms, that characterize these dunes and which form the base of the entire ecosystem. These dunes were considered wastelands with poor relics of a natural ecosystem, degraded and were trampled upon. Kishan Bagh is in every sense an attempt to breathe life into a desert ecosystem that was gasping for breath.

Kishan Bagh gives an opportunity to the visitors to observe the flora and fauna that you can expect to find in natural dunes in India’s western desert. We did a careful re-introduction of the plants and trees, even the small grasses and micro-organisms, that characterize these dunes and which form the base of the entire ecosystem. These dunes were considered wastelands with poor relics of a natural ecosystem, degraded and were trampled upon. Kishan Bagh is in every sense an attempt to breathe life into a desert ecosystem that was gasping for breath.

How did it happen?

The restoration project has been done by a team of ecological restoration practitioners and architects who have experience and familiarity with the Thar Desert. The project was a unique method of re-introducing not only plants but also the micro-organisms that play such an important part in any habitat restoration. For example, ‘inoculating’ a degraded habitat with soil brought from richer habitats, because this transfer brings not only micro-organisms and seeds of a large number of associated species, but also dusts the dunes with minerals that are essential to the new plants.

Work on rejuvenating Kishan Bagh began in the monsoon of 2016. Kishan Bagh was inaugurated by Rajasthan’s Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Ji in December of 2021 and quickly became a popular tourist attraction for Jaipur’s residents.

The restoration project has been done by a team of ecological restoration practitioners and architects who have experience and familiarity with the Thar Desert. The project was a unique method of re-introducing not only plants but also the micro-organisms that play such an important part in any habitat restoration. For example, ‘inoculating’ a degraded habitat with soil brought from richer habitats, because this transfer brings not only micro-organisms and seeds of a large number of associated species, but also dusts the dunes with minerals that are essential to the new plants.

Work on rejuvenating Kishan Bagh began in the monsoon of 2016. Kishan Bagh was inaugurated by Rajasthan’s Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Ji in December of 2021 and quickly became a popular tourist attraction for Jaipur’s residents.

Interesting seasons to visit Kishanbagh

Although it is an amazingly different experience to visit Kishanbagh in every season, monsoons are the best in terms of greenery, study ephemerals, and for arthropod lovers. Winters are delighted with some beautiful winter visitor birds. And the flora of thar is always there to broaden your horizon and get an insight into our “Roee”.

Although it is an amazingly different experience to visit Kishanbagh in every season, monsoons are the best in terms of greenery, study ephemerals, and for arthropod lovers. Winters are delighted with some beautiful winter visitor birds. And the flora of thar is always there to broaden your horizon and get an insight into our “Roee”.

 

We have

200+

Species of Plants

142+

Species of Birds

30+

Species of Arthopods

65+

Hectares of Area