- Living Root Bridges, found in Meghalaya highlighting the socio-cultural, social and botanical links among people and nature, has been included in the tentative list of World Heritage sites of the Unesco.
- Villagers grow the living root-bridges by training the ‘ficuselastica’ tree on both sides of water bodies over a period of about 10 to 15 years where the roots form the bridge.
- At present, there are about 100 known living root bridges spread across 72 villages in the state.Unique species of orchids, amphibians, and mammals can be found on these root-bridges.