The Metro Forest Bangkok, Thailand

The Metro Forest in Bangkok is a 2 hectare urban Miyawaki forest. Created in 2014, on abandoned land made up of a rubbish dump and swampy areas, the photo below shows the forest after just 5 years of growth.

The site was cleared, thousands of tons of soil and a specific compost mix brought in and contoured. Then 60,000 saplings were planted, made up of 279 indigenous species. Planting rate was 4 saplings per sq m as per the Miyawaki method preference, which allows a quick dense canopy to form quickly. This allows the biodiversity chain to rapidly form, while suppressing weeds and invasive plants from moving in during the formation period.

Eventually the faster pioneering tree species will give way and the secondary more long term species will start to take over.