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The authorities is preparing a broad guidebook to papers centenarian trees successful the city, said Supriya Sahu, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Forests, successful a societal media post.
She said the initiative, portion of the Green Tamil Nadu Mission, aimed to scientifically papers trees that are implicit 100 years old. “We are documenting the city’s hundred-years-old trees nether the Green TN Mission successful collaboration with the National Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, the Chennai Forest Division and the Nizhal Trust. Scientific protocols and tract surveys are underway,” Ms.Sahu said.
Shobha Menon, Founder‑Trustee of Nizhal Trust, said, “The technological protocols for centenarian trees volition beryllium finalised by the Institute nether Ms. Sahu’s guidance. Our squad has, arsenic an archetypal step, identified 110 precise aged and uncommon trees wrong the Greater Chennai Corporation limits. A fewer of these whitethorn not beryllium ‘centenarian’ but are precise rare.”
She added, “However it is important that systems for extortion of the trees successful this imaginable database are enactment successful spot instantly to forestall vandalism oregon different harm to safeguard our centenarian histrion heritage!”
Study successful 2024
In July 2024, the Chennai Corporation acknowledged mediocre maintenance of avenue trees aft a survey titled Slow and Systematic Elimination of Avenue Trees successful Chennai by geographer O.M. Murali and erstwhile SRM University Vice-Chancellor S. Rajarajan. This recovered that histrion numbers connected prime T. Nagar roads roseate lone marginally from 317 successful 2004 to 327 successful 2024.
