The Eden Project
Imagine transforming a barren place that was an exhausted china clay pit, into a huge garden of beauty in just ten years. Yes! The Eden project has undergone such a transformation so incredible to believe. Here the stage has been set for people to tell future citizens of the world about the large diversity of crops, landscapes and wild plants that inhabited our earth. Tim Smit is the architect of this wonderful project. He has raised money to help build the largest biome in the world. All natural plant habitats found on earth find a place in this biome. Built at an incredible cost of around 90 million pounds it has also been funded by the Millennium Commission, which has pumped in around 43 million pounds, the European Regional development fund with a contribution of 12 million pounds and other private sector funds.
The Eden project is verily the symbol of hope for the future generations. It opened its doors to the public in Easter 2001 and since then has attracted over 750,000 visitors every year. It doubles up as an excellent centre for research studies. Eden can be described aptly as a living theatre of plants and people and everything here is constantly undergoing change. The Eden project opens the vast rainforest environment to children along with art and architecture that helps inspire the natural habitat.
Get carried away into the natural world of forests and nature trails that lead visitors to green leafy corners with lots of shortcuts, deep hideaways, stepping-stones and huge sandpits. The biome will display all the major biodiversities present in the world.