Bengaluru: Tree killers were at it again. Branches of 30 trees on the median of the Outer Ring Road near Marathalli on Wednesday were chopped just to ensure that a couple of hoardings are visible.This comes a few months after 25 trees were poisoned on the same stretch for the same reason.
An official from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s forest cell, who did not want to be named, said, “It is suspected that the trees were chopped on Wednesday to make the hoarding visible. A complaint has been registered with the forest cell, who are enquiring to find out who cut the branches off the trees. We will also check with the BBMP advertisement department to know the advertising agency that has erected the hoardings. We have requested the advertisement department to pull down the hoarding immediately.”
Mr Vijay Nishanth, who is known as tree doctor and an environmental activist, told Deccan Chronicle, “One of my friends informed me that the trees had been mutilated after he learnt it from the Facebook. I asked him to check the spot and he confirmed it. I rushed to the spot and found that branches of pongamania trees, behandi trees and Tabebuia Rosea were mutilated. I applied liquid banadages and removed the fungus. We have to provide the trees with nutrition, like manure and fertilisers, for them to re-grow.”
“It is unfortunate that people cut trees unnecessarily. Everyone should think about the state of the environment we live in. The public should be more environment conscious, so that we can live in a better world,” he said.
