India's largest open air fernery developed in Ranikhet
The Hindu
The fernery has been developed over four acres and houses various ‘threatened’ and rare species of ferns
The country's largest open air fernery was inaugurated at Ranikhet in Uttarakhand's Almora district on Sunday by well-known expert on ferns Nilambar Kunetha, an official said. The fernery has been developed by the research wing of Uttarakhand Forest Department over a period of three years under the Centre's compensatory afforestation scheme CAMPA. It has a collection of 120 different types of fern with only Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI), Thiruvananthapuram having a larger number of fern species, Chief Conservator of Forest (Research) Sanjiv Chaturvedi said.
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