Some saplings of Padil Miyawaki forest get damaged after NHAI dumps debris on the site
The Hindu
A few of the around 1,000 tree saplings of a Miyawaki forest at Padil got damaged following the National Highways Authority of India dumping storm-water drain debris at the site during the last week of June
A few of the around 1,000 tree saplings of a Miyawaki forest at Padil got damaged following the National Highways Authority of India dumping storm-water drain debris at the site during the last week of June.
The forest is being raised for the last two years on the median island of NH 75 located just after the railway overbridge from the city.
Environmentalist Jeeth Milan Rosh had taken the initiative to convert the median island measuring about an acre to an urban forest as the area had become a waste dumping ground.
“Padil is the gateway to Mangaluru from Bengaluru and the waste dump would have affected the city’s beauty. We cleared the land of waste, prepared the soil and planted 1,050 saplings during the 2021 monsoon,” he told The Hindu.
Rotary Club of Mangalore had recently sponsored fencing of the site.
While replanting a few of the dead saplings in June last week, the activists found dumped debris and broken fence.
On June 28, they saw tractors unloading debris at the site and the supervisor of the workers directed them to an engineer of the NHAI, Mr. Rosh said.