The felling of thousands of trees for the ‘Bangalore Surrounding Roads Project’ will permanently damage the city’s environment, finds an EIA by Azim Premji University. The actual number of trees to be cut are far higher than that reported as well, finds the EIA.
This is a report on environmental and ecological impacts of tree felling for proposed steel flyover on Bellary Road and road widening of Jayamahal Main Road, Bengaluru.
Running events typically generate a lot of waste – water bottles, bibs, biscuit packets… The Zero Plastic Run held on June 20th, was a step towards changing that.
Among the many issues raised by the recent event at Sankey Tank. One is – can this set a precedent for BBMP to lease out our parks, lakes, or wetlands? An ecologist from Bangalore ponders over the issue.
Such was her connection to Bangalore that she had been herself studying lakes in the city for the last year or so and had deep insights into the way forward for citizen action on lake preservation.
Researchers and academicians say that BBMP’s road widening plans which is resulting in tree cutting, is unscientific and unsustainable. Is anyone listening?
In 1998 when Cubbon Park was denotified, thousands of Bengalureans protested for weeks but last Friday at the Sankey road tree cutting bid, only a few dozen people turned up. What has changed?
