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The broad histrion census that has commenced successful the city, an inaugural by the Mysuru territory administration, with the enactment of the Bherunda Foundation, has already documented 48,000 trees, with the city-wide workout expected to beryllium completed by the extremity of March, positioning Mysuru arsenic a ‘green city’.
Under the initiative, each histrion successful each wards of the metropolis volition beryllium scientifically documented to make robust information for aboriginal municipality planning, biology argumentation formulation, and green-zone development.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) successful transportation with the histrion audit task titled ‘Nammara’ (my tree) was signed, marking the motorboat of the broad histrion enumeration and green-zone appraisal programme, ‘Mysuru Tree Audit 2025–26’.
Of the 65 wards nether the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), surveys are presently underway successful 37 wards, with much than 48,000 trees already documented. The survey crossed each wards is targeted for completion by March 31.
The ambitious task is being implemented by the Bherunda Foundation successful collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Learning (CFAL), Mangaluru, combining biology research, technological methodologies, and progressive national participation. The territory medication has signed an MoU with the Bherunda Foundation to undertake the technological census of trees crossed Mysuru city.
How trees are documented
According to the Bherunda Foundation, each histrion volition beryllium geo-tagged and documented utilizing location-based mapping, maturation parameters, and biomass data. Tree wellness assessments volition beryllium conducted to place threats specified arsenic diseases, concretisation, and basal damage, followed by due conservation measures. Details, including species, height, trunk diameter, and canopy spread, volition beryllium scientifically recorded.
“Biodiversity appraisal volition beryllium carried out, portion city-level c banal volition besides beryllium estimated,” a property merchandise from the Foundation said.
After completion of the survey, a broad study on with biodiversity indices volition beryllium released aft March 2026. “The study is expected to service arsenic a papers for shaping Mysuru’s biology policies and municipality readying for aboriginal generations,” it said.
Bherunda Foundation President Trishika Kumari Wodeyar said trees play a important relation successful municipality ecosystems. “They not lone heighten greenish screen but besides supply abundant oxygen. Understanding the value of tree-related information is vital, and I impulse each national to go portion of this initiative,” she said.
Expressing gratitude to the territory medication for the accidental to conserve the city’s greenish wealth, she added, “Let Mysuru beryllium filled with abundant greenery, due to the fact that trees are our lifeline.”
The organisers appealed to citizens, volunteers, and institutions to actively enactment successful the inaugural done unpaid grooming programmes, tract surveys, and nationalist consciousness campaigns. “The Mysuru Tree Audit 2025–26 is not simply a survey; it is simply a pledge of work towards quality and the aboriginal of our children,” they stated.
