Flora of LUMS University

As the initiative is fairly new, ongoing reports have not yet been delivered. Nevertheless, on a close inspection of the sources, several environmental benefits (in various stages of implementation) have been detected.
Increased green space area, increased protection of threatened species & increased number of species present: At the LUMS campus around 70% of the flora consists of indigenous plants, while 30% of species are exotic or introduced varieties. Some of the plant species have been identified as endangered by the IUCN. Such species include Giant trees and redwood trees. Some trees present at LUMS are considered vulnerable, such as keekar, fern, sita ashoka and kino etc. As part of this project, the team planted around 30 species of trees, all native to the flora of Punjab. Regarding the increased protection for threatened species, this can be recognized in the database that has been built for research and identifies the present species (Ref: 2). The database also identified around 105 plant species, including indigenous trees and some exotic plants like Pilcan Bhori, a tree that attracts over 15,000 central Asian/ Siberian birds called starlings (Tiliyars) during its fruit season of July/August (Ref: 2). Fifty species of birds have been identified so far, as have several species of flies and reptiles. LUMS also hosts around 10,000 migratory birds of 12 different types (Ref: 1). LUMS is home to a huge population of Dragonflies. Dragonflies are natural controllers of mosquitos, as they feed on mosquitoes, and their larvae feed on mosquito’s larvae due to sharing their breeding sites with mosquitoes (Ref: 2)