Bengaluru, a city rapidly losing its green cover to infrastructure projects, had an important job to do: count its trees. In August 2019, the Karnataka High Court mandated the exercise under the Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act, 1976, setting a three-year deadline which wasn’t completed even seven years later. Residents in some neighbourhoods decided to […]
Bengaluru, a city rapidly losing its green cover to infrastructure projects, had an important job to do: count its trees. In August 2019, the Karnataka High Court mandated the exercise under the Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act, 1976, setting a three-year deadline which wasn’t completed even seven years later. Residents in some neighbourhoods decided to […]
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