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| Govt to reverse environmental degradation in J&K | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU , Apr 4 : In a bid to reverse major environmental degradation in Jammu and Kashmir as a result of illegal felling of trees, especially the magnificent Chinar trees, various Government agencies besides some NGOs have launched a massive plantation drive in the state where the forest cover has experienced gradual denudation during the last over two decades. Government sources said that under the programme more than 14,000 saplings of Chinar would be planted in the Kashmir valle and an attempt was being made to at increasing China plantation in selected areas in the Jammu region. These sources said that though the Chinar tree cultivation has been restricted to the Kashmir valley but during the last 25 years or more its plantation has been carried out successfully on and around the river and canal belts of the Jammu city and in the temperate hilly areas of the region.
Senior functionaries of the Department of Forests said that out of many plant spices the Chinar has been the most endangered tree in the state after the militants, their supporters and security forces indulged in open illegal felling of trees during the last over 20 years. The result was that during a census it was found that the number of Chinar trees in the Kashmir valley had gone down from 40,000 to 5,000.
However, since 2001-2002 the degradation trend was being reversed by carrying out plantation programme on a large scale. Official sources said that the old order was being strictly enforced under which if one Chinar tree was felled after proper inspection by the concerned authorities it had to be replaced by plantation of 15 trees. The sources said that while emphasis on plantation of chinar, poplar, Deodar and willow trees was being laid in the Kashmir valley the focus in the Jammu region would be on Kail, Fir and pine trees. |
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