Gardens for Biodiversity Conservation

A garden is a planned planted space, usually outdoors, used for cultivation, display, conservation, and aesthetic purposes. Once, people had to visit tourist spots to see the beauty of gardens. They were only available in the government-run botanical gardens or zoological gardens. Nowadays the concept of gardens is more prevalent in schools, colleges, institutions, industries, corporate buildings, government buildings, Heritage sites, and even in our backyards. The students in schools and colleges are taught the importance and need for having a green garden. There is also an evolution of a separate discipline called Landscape Architecture to deal with the design and development of the gardens depending on the customer’s needs. However, people still perceive a garden as more of aesthetic value than environmental value. Hence, this article is written to instigate the ecological value of the garden to the common people and how gardens can be used for conserving local biodiversity