{"id":28454,"date":"2018-10-24T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28454"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:00:17","slug":"the-tree-as-an-urban-coordinate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-tree-as-an-urban-coordinate\/","title":{"rendered":"The tree as an urban coordinate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/the-tree-as-an-urban-coordinate\/article24366928.ece\">The tree as an urban coordinate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Analysis:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Neha Sinha, wildlife conservationist, discussing about the ongoing protests in some of India\u2019s cities including Delhi and Mumbai to save trees in urban spaces.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. Cities are centres of construction created mainly by the human hand.<\/p>\n<p>3. Many cities including Delhi and Mumbai witnessing the ongoing protest to save trees.<\/p>\n<p>4. Hundreds of Delhi residents took to the streets in protest against a plan to 14,000 trees cut for the \u201credevelopment\u201d of government colonies.<\/p>\n<p>5. Similarly, in Mumbai, citizens have been fighting for years to save over 2,000 trees in Aarey, to make way for a metro line car shed.<\/p>\n<p><u>6. Forests in India:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In India, forests are governed under the Forest (Conservation )Act, 1980, State laws, and the Indian Forest Act, 1927, which lay down elaborate rules for the conservation and diversion of forests.<\/li>\n<li>The UN\u2019s REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries, programme lays emphasis on planting and maintaining forests as a means to counter climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Despite above benefits, forests are the first targets for developmental projects such as mining, dams, highways, industrial projects etc.<\/li>\n<li>Trees in cities mostly come under State Tree Acts, they can have variable descriptions. For example in Delhi, there are usually avenue or colony trees.<\/li>\n<li>Mature tree creates a sense of civilization in a way that a manicured green belt cannot.<\/li>\n<li>Trees in Delhi purify the air and also provide visual relief.<\/li>\n<li>Thus the fight for Delhi\u2019s trees is also a fight for the right kind of species to be allowed to grow.<\/li>\n<li>Many new apartment complexes have green belts that do very little for biodiversity or the ecological idea of greenery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tree as an urban coordinate Analysis: Neha Sinha, wildlife conservationist, discussing about the ongoing protests in some of India\u2019s cities including Delhi and Mumbai to save trees in urban spaces. Important facts: 2. Cities are centres of construction created mainly by the human hand. 3. Many cities including Delhi and Mumbai witnessing the ongoing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-tree-as-an-urban-coordinate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The tree as an urban coordinate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704576229},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}