Increase biodiversity
Channel: Khandige Vikas Bhat
Date: 12/04/2011

It is a good idea to set aside a little part of the forest farm as a JUNGLI PATCH.

As less as 1 or 2 % of the total area is also ok.
The main purpose of setting aside some space where nothing is done -an undisturbed by people space are:
1)A little haven is created  for those small creatures who need privacy to live and breed in peace.eg.moths,butterflies,all kind of insects,birds.
2)this will cause a steady increase in BIODIVERSITY,year after year.perticularly insects,small birds,and smaller mammels n reptiles.also new species of plants and grasses also turn up .an amazing thing to notice.
3)Higher biodiversity is very crucial to reestablish and maintain the natural pest-predator balance.
we NEED plenty of species of Natural predators like SPIDERS,WASPS,SMALL BIRDS and all to eat up the pests in the farm and garden section.

4)Burrowing creatures like mangoose,wild mice,moles,voles,hares ,rabbits all need non ploughed areas to make breeding colonies.

Our jungly patch is about 6 years old now(though the oldest tree in this patch is 25 years old.
.It s the Ficus racemoses showed in earlier videos.
 weeds,shrubs n insects of all types keep adding up each year,
now we got a mongoose family in there.they moved in last year.Hare s also live.moved in 3 years back.
jungle quail,snakes all there too.plant species all arrive ing one by one steadily.last year gloriosa superba came all by itself.
.now a days the concept of sacred ness is considered laughable.
Nevertheless a brilliant scientist,  dr Madhav Gadgil ,did study this sacred groves of western ghats and wrote a neat book called Ecological journeys published by Permanent Black .those more interested can check it out.