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Deccan Herald
16-05-2025
- Climate
- Deccan Herald
30-year-old tree falls at Shivananda Circle, injures two in Bengaluru
The Indian Cork Tree (Millingtonia Hortensis), locally known as Akash Mallige, fell around 1.30 pm.
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Action panel's transplanted trees back to life
Mysuru: They started as an informal group to fight against the axing of 40 mature trees that were more than six decades old on Hyder Ali Road near the SP office in Nazarbad. But now Action Committee is now taking forward its initiative to protect the waterbodies and greenery of its first initiative, the committee, which is an umbrella grouping of more than a dozen organisations, transplanted four trees (Akash Mallige) that fell during downpour at Kukkarahalli Lake in early May. Twigs sprouted from the branches of two translocated trees. In less than a week, the trees were back to has been a month since the trees on Hyder Ali Road were axed. After activists voiced their concern about the axing of the trees, deputy commissioner G Lakshmikanth Reddy formed a committee to examine the need for widening the road, the need to cut 40 mature trees, and to check whether all rules were followed to remove the convener Kamal Gopinath told TOI that after the committee was formed to investigate the matter, its findings have not been disclosed yet. "We have written a letter to both deputy commissioner Lakshmikanth Reddy and forest minister Eshwar B Khandre seeking to disclose the report," Gopinath committee, according to Gopinath, is not against development but aims to conserve the environment. Development should happen not at the cost of nature, he said.
The Hindu
02-05-2025
- General
- The Hindu
Trees transplanted through crowdfunding
Four fully grown trees along the Kukkarahalli lake embankment which were uprooted due to heavy rains and gale that lashed Mysuru on Wednesday night, were transplanted on Friday. It was the initiative of the Action Committee for Environmental Conservation which is an umbrella organisation of various NGOs and groups advocating the cause of environment and entailed raising funds from among its members. The four Akash Mallige trees, each aged around 15 to 25 years, were transplanted within 5 ft. of their original site. The initiative has drawn the appreciation of the general public and has come as a boost to environmental cause as it comes close on the heels of 40 trees that were felled for widening Hyder Ali Road. The Action Committee members ensured the moisture of the roots was sustained through wet gunny bags and necessary watering and stablished contact with N.K. Lokanath, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore who approved the idea if it was feasible. Kamal Gopinath, member of the Committee and Parashurame Gowda of Parisara Balaga, said while the university agreed to lend both manpower and some equipment support, the Action Committee opted to go for crowdfunding from among its member organisations and its members towards meeting the JCB, crane, fertilizer and other requirements. ''Today, we have proved that tree transplantation is possible, cost-effective and not a myth, as the many bureaucrats, real estate interests, and timber lobbyists would have it,' said Mr. Kamal Gopinath.
