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plants and animals along with preserved sections of semi-aquatic grassland and forested ecosystems. In parallel with the conservation of historic monuments, the cemetery’s natural heritage is being preserved as a priority of the landscape plan, as urban parkland and as a biodiversity conservation park. This will provide several conservation benefits such as reduced air and noise pollution, replenishing of groundwater, and the conservation of soil, flora and fauna that will promote mitigation of climate change.
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deciduous forests). The city’s landform contains pockets of rainwater collected within dense, clayey soils; old growth trees, bamboo forests, palm plantations and wetland ecosystems together create the designed and natural landscape. Although these landforms are disappearing as a result of development pressures, several important ecological sites - such as the
Scottish Cemetery - survive as protected spaces within the urban environment.
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Scottish Cemetery contains 1,809 headstones and monuments and around 4,000 burials. Although its use continued after Indian Independence (1947) it fell into disrepair in the 1970s. In 2008 the Kolkata Scottish Heritage Trust (KSHT), Scotland, was established to restore the cemetery. The project
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Extending to 3 acres (12,000 m) the cemetery lies within the dense urban area on Karaya Bazar Road. It is roughly square in plan and is laid out largely in a grid pattern, but with more random tombs closest to the road, in the oldest, south-west section. It contains over 1809 burial plots, with
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only a much needed ‘green lung’ but also encourages tourism especially related to genealogy. Since the cemetery is surrounded by a neglected urban precinct populated by under-privileged families, the project runs a community development program for the neighbourhood.
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processes take into account the current needs of the times without compromising the ability of future generations to do the same. The project has at its core the interests of history, ecology, and people.
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at least 2000 burials. The entrance, which bears the title "Scottish
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cemetery has a strong Scots character. Almost all original lead (used in lettering) and cast iron, was systematically removed in the second half of the 20th century.
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