Chinar felling stirs row in Valley, admin calls it ‘pruning’
Hindustan TimesSrinagar: Months after the Jammu & Kashmir government announced a “Tree Aadhaar” initiative to geo-tag the Chinar trees that have always been associated with the region so as to preserve their numbers, the felling of several of the trees, including some believed to be hundreds of years old, in a public park in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, ostensibly for “pruning”, has outraged people across the Union Territory. Centuries-old Chinar trees after being felled at Rani Bagh, in Anantnag. The Environmental Policy Group, a civil society-driven environmental protection group, strongly denounced the “deeply distressing” felling of centuries-old Chinar trees in Rani Bagh, Anantnag. The widening of the Narabal-Baramulla Road has further exacerbated the situation, leading to the removal of several Chinar trees along the route up to Delina,” the group said.
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