Miyawaki Forest Plantation in New Delhi

Delhi Ridge restoration has reintroduced native trees including dhau, dhak, babul and kair, chosen because they hold up on the Ridge's dry, rocky quartzite ground with little watering once established. A CSR Miyawaki forest on a smaller plot in the city can draw from the same native list, dense-planted so the canopy closes faster than a conventional plantation would.

What Yamuna Biodiversity Park's floodplain work shows about difficult ground

Yamuna Biodiversity Park's restoration, begun on barren, sodic floodplain soil, used a grass species to bring the soil's pH down from around 10 to neutral before native trees such as Adina, Sal, Teak and Hardwickia could establish, and the site has since grown to around 1,500 recorded species of plants and animals. A CSR forest plot on poor or alkaline soil in Delhi can draw on the same principle: correct the soil chemistry first, then plant, rather than planting into ground that will reject the saplings.

Planted inside a belt with a protected history

Around 7,777 hectares of Delhi's Ridge and surrounding land were declared reserved forest in 1993, with protections against construction tightened through the mid-1990s, and the city's 2025 urban forest programme, including its Miyawaki pocket forests, builds on that older protected base rather than starting from nothing. A CSR forest on a company's own plot sits outside this protected boundary but follows the same restoration logic the city has already tested at scale nearby. The comparison matters mainly for scale and expectation: a company plot will never match a few thousand hectares of protected forest, but the same dense, layered planting technique behind that larger effort works just as well on a much smaller footprint.