Rakbhe Park

Sharikba's **Rakbhe Park** is a public green space. With 850 acres, it is the largest park in the city and receives an average of 29 million visits a year, making it the most popular in eastern Parania. The park was created as a haven of nature for the Kosnans and their allies to relax in and is situated in the most visited tourist area in Sharikba, the Rouge District. Naturalists, birdwatchers, and botanists from all over the world come to the park for its intense biological diversity ecology, which also draws tourists to its recreation areas and businesses that are tucked away within the park's trees. Due to the park's reputation as the brightest urban park in the world, both visitors and residents can feel secure when wandering through it at any time of day or night.

## History

Early and presumably very rich Kosnans who were building off the southern end of Sharikba mourned over the loss of their beautiful landscape they would be exchanging for limestone apartments but one unnamed man amongst them had an idea; to create a serene lounging space that imitates the natural landscape of Kosna as realistically as possible. The unnamed man instructed the other men to build around an 850 acre wide rectangle to keep a bit of the natural landscape around them, and conveniently around them too. The park started off prevalently consisting with species of olives, oaks, sages, pines, and almonds with other allying traders, who were friends with the unnamed man, introducing some of their land's indigenous plants to the park such as banyans, figs, hawthorns, cedars, and myrtles.

The unnamed man suggested lakes and ponds to add to the park's environment and multiple manmade waterways were constructed in the park and much of the allies' brought with them their indigenous water plants to add to the biodiversity of the park, plants such as the pond apple, the tamarind, and the weeping willow were some of many plants brought to beautify the newly constructed waterways.

### The Introduction of Wildlife

The presence of slaty woodpeckers, blue iguanas, sahara frogs, great locusts, crested porcupines, and bronzewings was particularly strong. A few creatures had already made the Rakbhe their home, but more were needed to add a more "wild effect" according to the unnamed man. This was where the introduction of Virginia opossums, discus fish, spotted cucumber beetles, adonis blues, golden spiny mice, and moonrats began, all originating from a variety of habitats, ranging from temperate to arid to subtropical and brought to the gates of the Rakbhe. Hundreds of other species were also in much of the trucks.

#### Mammals

The first three mammals introduced were the Virginia opossum, the golden spiny mouse, and the moonrat which were all introduced for biodiversity and to control the native locusts and cicadas of the park. As the first three flourished, more mammals were introduced into the park including common raccoons, tapeti rabbits, lesser bamboo rats, black rats, and a natural spread of the already-introduced culpeo. As of today, the latter eight species are the only species of mammals present in the park but observations of red foxes, four-eyed opossums, and wild boars have been noted.

#### Birds

Over 70 bird species were released in large flocks into the park to mainly beautify the landscape, majority of these being songbirds from Pasia, southern Herethear, and other parts of Parania. Greater coucals, house buntings, common serins, common griffons, yellow wagtails, brown-necked ravens, release doves, common chaffinches, common linnets, common bluethroats, bananaquits, tropical mockingbirds, spotless starlings, common starlings, great tits, mute swans, black swans, common moorhens, grey herons, common bulbuls, common greenfinches, red-vented bulbuls, cisticolas.