India’s largest open-air fernery inaugurated in Uttarakhand

Uttrakhand Forest Department developed an open-air fernery. This is said to be the biggest fernery of India. Ranikhet Fernery inaugurates by Dr. Nilambar Kunetha, a well-known Pteridophyte, an expert on ferns, in Ranikhet, today. It is an effort of three years of Research Wing of the Uttarakhand Forest Department under GOI’s CAMPA scheme.

• India’s largest open-air fernery has been inaugurated in Ranikhet of Uttarakhand on September 12, 2021.
• The new center will serve the dual objective of ‘conservation of fern species’ as well as ‘create awareness about their ecological role and promote further research’.
• The Ranikhet fernery has around 120 different types of fern, spreads over four acres of land at an altitude of 1,800 meters.
• The facility has been developed under Central Government’s CAMPA scheme, by the Research Wing of Uttarakhand Forest Department over a period of three years.