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According to city-based environmentalists, while acacia is exempted under the Karnataka Preservation of Tree Act, the list of trees proposed to be felled for the development work also include honge, karijali, and mogali. They say trees and lakes can and must coexist.
As per the third notice issued on June 7, BMRCL had sought permission to cut 15 trees standing at its project site area from Agara port to Iblur port. TEC inspected on June 22 and passed an order granting permission for removing eight trees.
The Tamil Nadu government is contemplating the adoption of a Tree Act modeled after the Delhi Tree Act of 1994. Once enforced,
According to Sarina Sikkaligar, Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF), BBMP, citizens have recently filed many such complaints in the recent past, and the civic agency has taken up some of the cases and registered FIRs against the offenders. She also informed BM that no permission has been issued by the department to any shop owner in the city to axe trees or trim the branches.
Along with eating into the riverine vegetation along the Mula-Mutha river, the riverfront development project that aims to address flooding and make the river more 'accessible' to people will not really do so, say activists.