Bangkok is turning to nature to help fight the floods. A city forest larger than New York City’s Central Park is slated to open in the capital as early as this December. The new park will be filled with 4,500 trees and a floodplain where rainwater will be purified with vegetation. This joins Benjakitti Forest Park, where a former tobacco factory has been turned into a new $20 million city forest.The city has one of the lowest ratios of green spaces in Southeast Asia. The aim is to build 500 parks by 2026.