Out of 7.5k trees to be transplanted for metro depot, less than 2.5k may survive
Mumbai: Even as the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority plans to transplant over 7,500 trees to accommodate a car depot for the metro 9 corridor in Uttan, data accessed by Hindustan Times shows that the survival rate of trees transplanted owing to metro works is barely 33%. The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation, which constructed the 33.5-km underground metro 3 line connecting Colaba with Aarey Colony, axed 2,800 trees to accommodate metro lines and stations The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation, which constructed the 33.5-km underground metro 3 line connecting Colaba with Aarey Colony, axed 2,800 trees to accommodate metro lines and stations and another 2,141 trees to accommodate the car depot in Aarey Colony. “In-situ plantations have a far better survival rate, at 85-90%, compared to transplanted trees,” said an MMRC official. “At Mahim West, 10 trees were planted in a row, out of which three have died,” said activist Zoru Bathena, while Godfrey Pimenta from the nonprofit Watchdog Foundation raised concerns in an email to MMRC about the “distressing condition of tree plantations” at Aarey Colony, where the car depot was constructed.
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