Preliminary city of cricket in MA Madura. | Photo Credit: HS Hime
City Corporation (MCC) is ready to launch a civic initiative with an ecology called “Amar”, which aims to grow 30,000 tree seedlings throughout the city on Monday.
This initiative, which was jointly subjected to MCC, Dakshina Kannada District Administration and Center for Advanced Learning (CFAL) in cooperation with forest departments, departments and civic groups, proposes to plant seedlings in 60 departments.
“This is the restoration of the green cover of the city for a sustainable future, which makes the mangaluurus a greener, healthier and more habitual city,” said Commissioner Ravicandra Naik, MCC.
During this monsoon, it was proposed to plant at least 500 seedlings on each monsoon, stating that he added that the initiative would start on Monday at 10 am.
The slogan of the initiative is: “Place a tree tree, adopt a tree, prakruthiye Pragathi.”
Referring to the timeline of the event, the Commissioner stated that after the initiative started, the department would begin to support the environmental project.
“This initiative was released after the” tree number-magalura 2023 ‘brought Nitte (considered) university in 2023 revealed that the city had only 6.24 % of greenery in public places, “the Commissioner said.
Mr. Naik said that people, organizations, institutions can accept seedlings/trees by planting and maintenance.
“Every tree will be geotagged and old,” the commissioner said. Mr. Naik said that this initiative will also include the promotion and protection of mangroves on the coastline.
Climate change is a global problem and mangalur, which is a coastal city that is experiencing extreme heat and irregular precipitation. It turned out that the trees were one of the best tools for fighting and alleviating the climate crisis, he said.
Meanwhile, the 2023 report from Nitte (considered) the Center for Scientific Education and Research (Nucser) stressed that the decline in the number of trees led to an increase in the surface temperature in the mangalur in 2014 and 2022 by almost five degrees Celsius.
The report was the product of 19,171 trees on the road in 50 departments (departments No. 11 to 60) Mangalur, which began in November 2022. It was led by Nucser director Smith Hege. More than 50 Nitte students, St. Joseph Engineering College and Alva’s Institute of Engineering and Technology. Only trees on the roads were counted by hand and the trees were not on private properties. Green cover on private soil was evaluated using high -intensity satellite images.
Published – April 20, 2025 17:36
