50,000 trees cut around Dehradun, slaughtered from all sides:
It's vital that we understand that Dehradun is being critically slaughtered from all directions due to rampant tree cutting & unabated loss of green cover.
This is what I tried to explain last evening during the peoples protest program that close to 50000 trees have been cut plus will be cut for highways & roads.
This is just a rough estimate & the actual numbers may be much higher.
Grateful to Meenakshi Sati for capturing this & for sharing it on her instagram account.
The larger question for us all is whether this relentless focus on increased connectivity at the expense of tree cutting is worth all the environmental destruction.
#Dehradun
#Uttarakhand
The whole country is protesting people in Vizag against the data centres, Adivasis on hunger strikes against the Keh-Betwa project, Residents protesting in Uttarakhand to save trees and the elephant corridor and the students protesting at Jantar Mantar.
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