BALI BUILDS LOCAL UNIQUE PARKS

Gianyar, Bali, Sept 8 (ANTARA) - Bali built parks tainted with local characteristic arrangements of each municipality or city in order to preserve rare, traditional and plants.

The local arrangements parks planning was introduced gradually to the society in a program of turning Bali into a park island, Sudarsa, head of Gianyar's Environment Office said here Monday.

Gianyar, a home of Bali's arts and culture which is located 20 kilometres to the east of Denpasar has built parks with local characteristics as a habitat for flora and beautiful functional green spaces to gove a pretty sight of the city.

The parks condition in the city decorated with sculptures of characters from wayang stories needed to be spread to the society, Sudarsa told Bali's parks competition judges.

Bali, the island of gods which has been visited by local and foreign tourists thanks to its natural beauty and culture and arts made an effort to preserve various rare flora through the office parks competition in all municipalities and cities.

Ketut Sunyana, head of the judges said the initiative to include rare plants in the park was a special consideration besides other categories while observing the Gianyar regent office park.

He added that the competition is an effort to create Bali's image as a park island to draw lure tourists.

The provincial administration sets the competition of regents' official residences and office parks along with regional legislative office parks to encourage their care care for plants by standing out rare flora and local icons besides other plants which have religious meanings.

The competition was part in a series of events to commemorate world environment day on June 5, 2008.