{"id":13207,"date":"2013-08-20T12:03:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T06:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13207"},"modified":"2013-08-20T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T06:33:49","slug":"trivandrum-to-come-up-with-rs-50-million-biodiversity-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/trivandrum-to-come-up-with-rs-50-million-biodiversity-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum to come up with Rs 50 million Biodiversity Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A modern biodiversity park with galleries depicting the vast flora and fauna of Kerala will come up in Trivandrum at a cost of <strong>Rs 50 Million<\/strong>. The biodiversity park project is mooted by <strong>Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB)<\/strong> and the state-run Science and Technology Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The main attraction of the park is that it will be housed at the<strong> boat-house<\/strong> building of the erstwhile Travancore royal family. The heritage building and the surroundings area, which includes a canal, have all been cleaned up.<\/p>\n<p>The park will serve as a biodiversity information centre for students, researchers and those interested in the topic. It will educate them about the need for conserving biodiversity. Visitors can see numerous varieties of fish and the hugely diverse flora and fauna of Kerala. Biodiversity Park will have all the most modern facilities including a<strong> 3D theatre<\/strong> and a floating bridge to attract visitors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything that was seen in the state and is now seen would be there at the park. There will be numerous replicas of our topography besides rare species that are present. Extinct species would also be seen in 3D format in the theatre,&#8221; said KSBB secretary K P Laladhas.<\/p>\n<p>Kerala is the only state in the country to set up mandatory biodiversity management committees. The state has also prepared more than 520 &#8220;<strong>people&#8217;s biodiversity registers<\/strong>&#8221; that documents the biodiversity at the grassroots level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modern biodiversity park with galleries depicting the vast flora and fauna of Kerala will come up in Trivandrum at a cost of Rs 50 Million. The biodiversity park project is mooted by Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) and the state-run Science and Technology Museum. The main attraction of the park is that it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}