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S. Ganesan State has sanctioned Rs.50 lakh for improving infrastructure at the site 100 million-year-old: An ancient fossil tree at Sathanur in Perambalur district. TIRUCHI: The site of over a 100 million-year-old fossil tree, a geological treasure, in the remote village of Sathanur in Perambalur district will soon be a more hospitable place for visiting tourists and geologists.
Trees covering almost 95 per cent of the around 28,000 acres of forests in Hyderabad have been illegally felled during the last seven years, says a report. The report, prepared by Hyderabad Forests Conservator Habibullah Nizamani, puts the losses, besides the degradation of the environment owing to deforestation, at over Rs87 million. Sources said that it was just the tip of the iceberg as the report was based on the position of forest cover in just one district of the province. The situation was also expected to be similar in other districts of the province, they said.
The city government is on a tree planting drive ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games Urban Indians are realizing the problem that is staring at us and therefore concerted efforts are being made to turm the Capital green. After decades of reckless industrialization the environment is back on the nation's agenda," says Sunita Narain of the Centre for Science and Environment.
Two species of trees, earlier considered extinct, rediscovered botanists have re-discovered two critically endangered tree species, earlier considered to be extinct. The trees that originated in southern Kerala have been discovered for the first time in some of the relic primeval evergreen forests of Uttara Kannada district in the Western Ghats. Researchers from Indian Institute of Science,
More than one million trees will be planted in Karachi by December this year, City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal said in a statement issued by the city government. While inspecting trees plantation in various areas of the city, he said that the work to make Karachi green was under way. He said that the city government had earmarked Rs1.8 billion for the improvement of the city's environment. He directed the officials concern to accelerate the pace of work.
Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday began a tree plantation programme on the campus. Chairman of the afforestation and beautification committee Prof AFM Yusuf Haider inaugurated the programme while planting a few saplings of fruit-bearing trees in the Mokarram Hossain Khandakar Bhaban area on the campus. Caretaker of the Arboriculture department Prof Hadiuzzaman was present on the occasion. Talking to The Daily Star, Prof Yusuf said a total of 500 trees will be planted on the campus under the programme.
As the parks department has failed to save trees from being felled in different areas, the city government imposed on Tuesday a complete ban on felling of trees anywhere in the metropolis, by any civic agency, without its prior approval.
Parul Sharma NEW DELHI: The Delhi University community comprising teachers, students and karamcharis has launched a campaign under the aegis of Environment Justice Forum to save the trees in front of the office of Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental on the campus. The Forum claims that these trees, some of them over 150 years old, were being "recklessly and indiscriminately cut' as practice matches for rugby for the Commonwealth Games in 2010 would be held there.
The ratio of stable oxygen isotopes in tree-ring cellulose was first used to reconstruct temperatures during tree growth, and a seminal study showed a strong correlation between oxygen isotopes of woody tissue and mean annual temperature.
Nepali Congress (NC) Central Office Monday organised a tree plantation ceremony to mark the 26th remembrance day of the party's founding leader late BP Koirala. On the occasion, NC central leaders and party cadres planted diverse kinds of plants along the Bagmati river banks at Balkhu. The participants discussed the contribution of late Koirala in the Nepali politics.
