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TREE WATCH
WHAT CAN YOU DO
Each
step counts
Tips
On Tree Planting
Conduct
A Tree Survey
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Each and every CLEAN-India member is a tree ambassador and has
the responsibility of not only spreading awareness but also look
for solutions and take suitable action. What is needed is both
advocacy and action.
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Removing
advertisements nailed on trees
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Each
Step Counts !!
Begin with some of the basic steps you can do
as friends of trees:
- Trees and plants have
been worshipped in our culture since centuries. Let us
respect them and refrain from plucking leaves / grass /
flowers unnecessarily.
- Lets not use trees as
a media for publicity and crucify them with advertisements.
The rusted nails can cause cancer in the tree. Remove
advertisements nailed on trees in your colony and fill the
hole preferably with Bordeaux powder.
- Tree guards provide
crucial support to trees in there initial years. But once
the trees have grown, the tree guards hampers the tree’s
growth, thus must be removed in good time.
- Do not allow leaves or
waste to be burned under the tree as this singes the tree
and can cause irreparable damage to it. Instead allow the
biodegradable waste to mulch
- Get your vehicles
checked for pollution regularly.
- During the intense
Indian summers, whenever you wash your vehicle, drain the
waste water towards a tree / plants nearby.
- Digging near trees for
laying repairing pipes and cables should be stopped. This
cuts the roots of trees, thus weakening them and they can
get uprooted even in a mild storm. After digging it takes
days before the work is done and the hole filled again. This
delay causes even the surviving roots to die due to
prolonged exposure to air.
- Concretising
or paving the soil around the trees suffocates the trees
and they soon perish. Break / loosen the concrete around
such trees with a hammer. Break or loosen the concrete
around the tree trunks and substitute with garden soil and
manure.
- While constructing
driveways and walls in your own home, remember to keep adequate
open space for the trees growing there.
- When you see a tree or
its branches being cut or digging near the trees, check
whether permission has been taken from the concerned
authorities.
- Whenever you find
trees being threatened inform the school authorities/
residents/ Resident Welfare Associations for action, or form
your own youth group and take first aid action for trees.
- There are enough rules
and regulations regarding the protection of trees like The
Delhi Tree Preservation Act and the Government of India
notification No.5-DDR/VIP/2000-DDVI. There are also agencies
like the tree officer and the tree helpline who can be
approached for assistance.
- Plant and nurture a
new tree every year !! Planting trees is easy, nurturing
them - the real task. Plant saplings during monsoons.
Their chances of survival are higher then. For some tips
on tree planting click here
One tree less means nothing
One tree less means that much less shade.
One tree less means that much more soil
eroded.
One tree less means that much less oxygen.
One tree less means that much more pollution.
One tree less means that many birds without
nests, animals without shelter.
One tree less means that much less water, less
food.
One tree less means that much more heat, more
cold.
One tree less, another tree less, and another
tree less means nothing in the end.
Nothing.
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