Changa Manga
The
Changa Manga is a planted forest and a
wildlife park in
Kasur District,
Punjab,
Pakistan.
While the dieselization of Pakistan Railway Network is complete, there remains three little bastions of old-fashioned steam railway still in operation. One is the on-demand
Khyber Pass Railway (a portion of which got swept away in
2007 flash floods), second is the on-demand Meter Gauge Network of Sindh province and the third is a small
25 km forest railway network at
Changa Manga.
Forestry
The forest is entered from a road from off the
N-5 Highway near
Bhai Pheru. The forest covers an area of 4,860
hectares (12,000
acres)
[1] and is one of the largest man-made forests on the planet. The planting and
irrigation of the land took place in the 19th century in the
era of the
British Raj due to the need for
timber for the
Indian Railways network. The most common species of trees are
Dalbergia sissoo (sheesham),
Acacia nilotica (kikar), both members of the
Fabaceae native to the
Indian subcontinent, white mulberry (
Morus alba), popular in cultivation throughout South Asia, or
Eucalyptus and
Populus specieS.
Wildlife park
The wildlife park in Changa Manga covers an area of 40
acres (16
ha) and was built in 2008. The park is home to species of
hog deer,
Indian peafowl,
jackal,
mouflon,
nilgai and
wild boar.
[3] Changa Manga Wildlife Park is one of the three wildlife parks located in Lahore District, other two
Jallo Wildlife Park and
Lahore Zoo Safari, also called Woodland Wildlife Park.
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