Public sentiment is deeply divided regarding deforestation and sustainable development in Telangana, with a significant majority supporting grassroots reforestation efforts while expressing strong discontent over rapid deforestation and political inaction. Positive reactions focus on individual contributions like those of Mr. Piyush Manush, while negative responses highlight the alarming rate of ecological destruction and demand accountability from politicians.

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This should be a percentage loss of tree cover, not gross loss. Obviously places with more forest cover will have more forests to lose.

Edit: lol I just saw the legend on the right. Disregard my comment.

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Leaving north eastern states,- other states that have lost a lot of tree cover i.e. Telangana, WB and Orissa have undergone relatively rapid development in the past 10 years compared to previous times. 

As we all know , development in India is hardly sustainable development and far from being environment friendly.

schrodingerdoc

Interesting!
Looking at just one year shows me that Oct is best month of vegetation and May/June the worst, aligning with seasons.

Can we say something if looked year wise? Or is there something I'm missing in the above video?

Final-Batz

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climatebygaurav

What do you mean, when you say you work in climate change ?

Hungry_Upstairs_8039

AvailableCut2423

Chichu_ikkada

So oct/nov months are more luscious green

StyleCharming

And now we say deer is our state animal 
So should a case be filed on government or Revanth reddy ? 
He started with HYDRA by destroying house and the hypocrisy is they gave permission to build them by collecting taxes and stamp duties 
And now destroying this ecosystem which is lung to developing city.
There are many empty lands in financial dist, hi tech and biodiversity for development, but he wants to sell this land just to make money and kill future generations and animals living there.

Shoddy_Detective_687

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Thank you for destroying my country, Congress party

fullatomhuman

Ok-Cover-4231

This is never going to stop. We humans are like this.

No-Engineering-8874

Chud Gaye guru. Forest cover waise hi kitna Kam h ye aur kam kar rahe h. Ye media mai mudda kyu nahi h.

Same-Boysenberry-433

Why are you so anti-development? We voted for this, didn't we?!

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india-ModTeam

Why is this not getting enough coverage? What happened to the National forest policy, the Green India Mission? How does this qualify as development when the air quality is so worse in India?

theColdFlake

The videos of peacocks crying, and scores of deers running away after woken up at night with this is heartbreaking. Why can't even a basic step of relocating the animals be performed? This is scorched earth.

Politicians are souless individuals who would even seek their mother to make hay while the sun shines.

ExpensiveOpposite568

Will the IT park solve the water crisis of Telengana????

What are these politicians doing???? 

Why doing such absurdity????

Old_Yogurtcloset5019

There was no hypocrisy.. They know wt they are doing from day 1...

They know we can't do shit from. Day 1..thry are clear on this...

tunkurnam

By the time this deforestation will show its impact on scale, all the people responsible for it will be long gone. 

The future generations will be carrying the burden of cursing these people but they will not be given a chance to make amendments. 

This is the same story across the world. Responsible people will be long gone and later generations will carry the burden thinking if only we can show these people what damage they have done. 

We are enjoying our life as if there is no tomorrow and by the time the impact comes, we all will be long gone. 

The people with power and money don't give a f about anyone else. 

Delhi NCR is a classic example, they think we will generate antibodies for pollution after being in this gas chamber for so many years now whereas what they miss is basic science that pollution isn't a virus or bacteria but it's pollution and it will keep on killing you till your last breath.

naturaltiming

Isn't it a non bailable offence + 10 lakh fine for killing a deer? 
Destroying the ecosystem in the name of development is messed up.

Sid-G-Mon

Low_Map4314

This is modern India. Cutting forest and clearing land for modernization and advanced society.
You can't do anything if you live in one of those

spicy_icetea

I mean would u blame the workers or their corporate overloads who’re making them deforest the area?

Calm-Possibility3189

DustyAsh69

I say sorry i feel sorrow cant blame workers they have stomachs to feed companies have salary to give I am sorry that my selfish needs have led to this disaster

Even-Bedroom7583

Forget environmentalists, general public, why aren't other political parties making a noise? Did they get their share of the green?

RevolutionaryBid1249

How r you able to capture all this. What mainstream media doing. Unless permission given already. What kind of development are we all doing, there will be nothing left

Sas_fruit

This is sad.

There is some history of the same, University South campus was expanded because government was snatching land left, right and centre.

Boob_Preski

In a country where any animal on screen whether dead or alive has to be CG, there's mass killing of what could be a wildlife sanctuary.

XD-Avedis-AD

Lack of imagination. There's plenty of space in the rest of the city. IT park needs some public transport and it's good.

confuseconfuse

I am sick and tired of all these comments mentioning this is new India and all.

Start naming and shaming the party. Mention the Chief Minister name who is sponsoring this atrocity.

We are all obsessed with patterns, but don't stop caring about the actual issue at hand. The only way this stops or this project halts is when the news blows out of proportion.

And before people label me anti-development, no, a tech park by demolishing one of the very few green lungs in the city is not worth it. Unlike Mumbai, Hyderabad is a big city with a huge scope to expand outward. Cities have to be planned methodologically, not to solely accommodate some rich man's economic interests.

InquisitiveSoulPolit

CandidInspector8530

While sudhir chaudhary discussing waqf board from last 3 weeks

Just_Chemistry2343

ye dono party me bhadwe log hi bhare hai congree anedo ya bjp dono madarchod hai

EnlightenedBigmac

Words cannot describe how utterly disgusted I'm by this. I seriously hope that this comes back to bite those bastards responsible for this destruction

Ok-Employee-3457

Well at least its not a cow, or the people of subcontinent would’ve gone ape shit /s

adario7

Meanwhile Indian media [busy doing PR for Anant Ambani's padyatra. ](https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/anant-ambani-halts-sacred-padyatra-to-rescue-hens-from-cages-video-goes-viral-watch-101743498333996.html)

waryinsomnious

Jaggi Vasudev will come and promote save soil campaign..

SpecificDelicious007

You need to attach relevant sources or else this post will also get taken down like the previous one. 

YouTube had some media reporting, you can attach that.

Disastrous-Tax5423

What can you expect from Congress leaders huh

gun1195

They could have developed awesome nature trails but they want to build multi crore congested concrete jungles to get rich quick. What a fucking shame..!

Optimal_Bother7169

Congress government are competing who can be more ahitty than one another.. all this after howling for a year we Will save constitution while suppressing anything which comes in way ..joke is on the ppl whi voted for them

sribgear

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Imalldeadinside

rohitrdx

nazionistsareevil

Mission-Outside-2499

This is so heartbreaking. They are literally destroying this beautiful city and citizens are supposed to just stay back and watch. Saw a video where they are dragging the protesters... Feel so hopeless. Lucky are the people who left this country for good.

Altruistic-Bus4875

Main to khta hu at this point, why not help them. Kisi mahan CBI director ne bola tha ki if you cannot stop rape, might as well enjoy it.

oldval

Kindly-Independent-2

Where’s this? What’s happened? Can you give some context please?

eermNo

banne kya jaa raha hai idhar

apna villa na banade

Critical_Survey_917

Where is that national son of India who saved some chickens yesterday?

indianodysses

The worst thing about electing clowns is they have no clue about bio diversity and ecological balance. 

God speed human extinction.

Consiouswierdsage

There are few small threads trying to cover this but reach is very very low .. it broke my heart after heading peacocks crying . Why are not people protesting enough?they went to protest against beer biceps…but not this. ? We  a live without oxygen now ?

divs10

It's so sad watching the videos of poor confused deer and peacocks. I hope the opposition comes together for this cause.

norafatty

Probably we are protesting at the wrong places where our voice is never heard. We should start the protests at offices of Microsoft, Amazon and Google like big tech companies and force partial or complete shutdown for a few weeks, then the actual lobbying will start working. 

Our votes don't matter once these politicians get elected, it's just the big corporations that can actually force the politicians to stop this nonsense.

Ohh yeah where is Anant Ambani who keeps saying that his life is dedicated to protect the nature and animals.

reddit_tmp_usr

celebs came out to protest against ARREY deforestation are now really quite and even congress joined in with huge rallies and now the same congress government in telengana is pulverizing hundreds of acres without any backlash because it is not the central government doing this, if it had been we would have seen this make the national/international news with bbc talking about it

Background-Spring140

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sign this petition everyone pls!

CapableEquivalent892

I think its a shame that the forest got destroyed, but I don’t think you can’t blame the wood workers, they have bills to pay… Blame the responsible people in planning instead.

gradbisspitze

We needed something like Chipko andolan. But we (except few protestors) are not brave enough so we need to accept it as our fate.

Designer-Winter6564

I don't understand why people are surprised. Congress is a neo-liberal party they want an IT park or industrial park. Sure, they could've balanced it in a way that this didn't happen, but this negligence of not relocating animals should be condemned.

Leading-Degree-506

i remember when i was in my school.. mayor (maybe bonthu ram mohon rao) gave me 2 saplings nd those saplings gives me red rose nd hibiscus now....!

Due_Let1590

Give credit where its due. Haritha Haram is a wonderful project done by TRS. usually I don’t appreciate them but few things they do are top notch, hopefully we will get a strong opposition next time to question them more for development.

cocwiki

Bad things happen in Hyderabad/ Telangana - KCR is bad

Good things happens in Hyderabad/ Telangana - kinda sus 


/s

Right-Bathroom-5287

This is sus tbh. We should get behind the data specifics— Hyd has been expanding to include the ORR, Gandipet areas and is this increase in green cover due to inclusion of these areas with much higher forest cover? (canopy density of more than 10% according to official definition) 
Or is it solely because of the strides the govt has been taking?

greek-u-veerudu

is ahmedabad really a megacity??
or it is cope?

VzlDaDevil

Okay I have a doubt, idk if we really did plant that many trees inside the Hyderabad areas where people stayed or we just incorporated the outskirts which had so many plants especially the ORR region into the jurisdiction of Hyderabad.

obscurial097

Great progress but I hope we can improve the forest cover even more especially after all the construction activities happening in and around the western Hyderabad

Majestic_ussr_769

Sick_Kebab

Ahmedabad is a mega city ? 🤔? Modi effect ?

sat_isabgol

I don't think the numbers are reflective of the reality, I may be wrong in my observation. I lived around a protected urban forest area.(2013) During COVID a road was laid and now in the whole protected forest space there are buildings.(2023)

KBR park partly eaten up by Mantri construction and now there is a big building there, part of it was scraped off for roads.

&lt;Sarcasm&gt; May be the increase in green cover is from the green cloths being used around construction buildings.

I appreciate growing Kasturi chettlu in the divider space atleast eases night driving a bit. But that isn't shade providing green cover, isn't  pollution clearing green cover, it is beautification green cover.

I wish we planted big trees like neem &amp; ravi trees (or any shade giving trees like turai, Avenue trees) under their canopy rubber trees that clean out the pollutants and under this layer some flowering shrubs. This would serve functionality and beautification well.

&lt;Not to throw shade but just to provide context&gt;
Telangana Dashabdi Uthsavalu have been announced from June 2nd to 22nd. The day when this post was done by OP June 19 was Haritotsavam. Either post was made to promote the same/OP was flooded with such marketing which led him over to post this as it stayed on OP's subconscious mind. As OP defended his point of view and took offence I don't know how deep this marketing is influencing everyone to the point where we search for complex proofs and unpleasant exchanges. In normal thinking Google Map archives would put an end to this I guess.

Fancy-Writing007

Rising-from_ashes

Is it? Where? Seriously,where
Cancellation of GO 111 will make 2 lakes and surrounding vegetation disappear

ecstaticyeti

Things have changed so much in three years

professor_devil

Is it because of planting trees or due to the expansion of hyderabad ?

They increased Hyderabad limit, so automatically green cover increases. Not undermining Haritha haram though.

I knew it. I have been noticing more and more trees lately for a few years. I guess it's good then

Pussy_fishing

This is so stupid, I might be wrong but Hyderabad in 2011 probably was not as big as it’s now. They slowly creep into RR district and call it Hyderabad so the comparison itself is wrong.

blitzkreig31

Topclasher2287

poopmaster79

If I am reading this correctly Delhi's forest cover is largest, 194 sq kms which is almost equal to that of next two i.e Mumbai &amp; Bengaluru

RaktPipasu

At least in the city of Hyderabad, there’s been a massive decrease in tree cover in the last 5 years. 

I don’t know how this data was measured. 

Just look at Tank bund. Hundreds of trees were cut down for the FE race. 

And in JNTU-Hitech city road, near Yashoda hospital, many trees were completely cut and removed on the left side without any explanation. 

With the increase in buildings and constructions everywhere, I’m not sure how tree cover can go up in the city.

Srihari_stan

If the BJP government get their way with the Aarey Forest, Mumbai's percentage will drop even further.

hell_storm2004

The Supreme Court of India criticized rapid tree-felling in Telangana, stressing the need for sustainable development practices.

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