LANDSCAPE : A NATURAL HERITAGE

Natural Heritage: Culturally significant Landscapes and Biodiversity

 Where Nature herself is the architect

Gangani, West Medinipur

 KANA HILL, BALARAMPUR, PURULIA

View of Pediment
Surface from top
of Residual Hill

BADLAND LANDSCAPE
Western Bank of Bhagirathi River, Baharampur
 Nature takes thousand to million of years
to carve out the astonishing landscape

LET US NOT DESTROY THE LANDSCAPE

 Coastal Dunes are Natural
Heritage Landscape; it also
Protects Habitation from
Cyclone, Tsunami

CANT WE STOP THIS

BUTCHERING OF
LANDSCAPE!

OLDER COASTAL DUNE AT

PANIPARUL, EAST MEDINIPUR
 1500 million years old (Proterozoic)
landscape at Rajgir, Bihar

Lets not quarry stone chip and deface natures beauty

 Medieval Period Cultural Landscape

Encroachment
Destroying the
Landscape
Ballal Dhipi, Nadia

Chandraketugarh, North 24 Parganas