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Living Root Bridges - Meghalaya
April 2 , 2022
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- ‘Jingkieng Jri or Living Root Bridge’ has been included in the tentative list of World Heritage Sites of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
- It is found in over 70 villages in Meghalaya
- It highlights the socio-cultural, social, and botanical links between people and nature.
- Villagers grow the living root bridges by training the ‘ficus elastica’ tree on both sides of water bodies.
- These trees over a period of about 10 to 15 years form the bridge.
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