Good morning friends. Green! ….. that’s one of my favorite color. It’s a cool color. Everytime I see a green color it remimds me of a nature. It’s a good view if everytime you look at something, you see green. Meaning the trees are there, the plants are still growing… That’s good to know.
Green is going from the city at much faster pace than you can spell the word. The effective forest cover of the city has in fact been reduced by almost half in the past 10 years.
Consider this: For every 100 new tree saplings planted, two full-grown trees have been chopped off in the city in the name of development in the past few years, as per the official record of the forest department. Now, compare the area covered by a sapling — barely 1 square metre — to that of a full grown tree which is normally put at 100 square metres, or even more.
This means, a 100 saplings would compensate for a full grown tree in a given time. So effectively, in a given year the green cover (what a global positioning system data would declare), of the city was reduced to half. Forest officials admit that planting a tree sapling cannot be an ‘immediate replacement for a full-grown tree’. ‘‘But then, we are trying our best,’’ said district forest officer, Lucknow, Ashok Mishra.
According to the data of the forest department, 9,334 full grown trees were felled for various development activities — road widening, housing, electricity poles and of course some of the state government ‘‘priority projects’’ like Ambedkar Udyan, Kanshi Ram Smarak and Rama Bai Rally Sthal in 2007-08. - The Times of India
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