Shift trees, don’t cut them: Telangana NGO Hyderabad municipality takes care of translocated trees in its jurisdiction during their period of adapting with help from volunteer groups.

Trees marked to be cut down for infrastructure projects in Hyderabad can often be saved by translocating them.

With another phase of Haritha Haram round the corner, NGOs and authorities are doubling up on efforts to do exactly that.

“We recently shifted eight palm trees to the zonal commission office and had 100 per cent success,” said V Damodar, director of Urban Forestry Department, GHMC (Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation).

“We shifted 20 trees to Dr Reddy’s Laboratory near Ameerpet a month ago and we are expecting all those trees to survive. We cannot always guarantee 100 per cent survival of translocated trees, but we do expect only a 10 per cent failure rate to occur.”

Vata Foundation is an NGO that has helped in translocation of trees from several places.

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