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<\/a><\/p>\nImage Credit: Pixabay<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Some of the benefits of these urban forests are:<\/p>\n These forests have the immediate\u00a0advantages of cooling urban cities, cleaning the air, sustaining wildlife, and creating carbon sinks, and are becoming very popular in corporate and government corridors in India. The idea is to select native and local plants of the area and plant\u00a015 to 30 different species of trees and shrubs close together – two to four trees per square meter resulting in dense forests. It is estimated that a natural forest might take closer to 200 years to grow while the Miyawaki forests can bloom in about 20 years’ time. Some initial care is required in the form of watering and weeding to help the forest grow and establish itself. Also, read\u00a0An Introduction to Biophilic Design or Green Architecture<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n It is important to establish the soil type, and native species, prepare the planting site and arrange the saplings. However, critics have\u00a0accused the Miyawaki forests of not meeting the fundamentals of ecological restoration in India.\u00a0 In a race to achieve results faster, people have used\u00a0non-native faster-growing trees instead of native slow-growth species. If not done right, this could lead to planting the wrong trees in the wrong soils which could lead to depletion of the soil quality, reduction of biodiversity, as well as hampering the natural ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n