20 Feb 2020 Tree City of The World: Hyderabad

Posted at 20 Feb 2021 in Current Affairs by Ajit Satapathy 0 Comments

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2020 Tree City of The World: Hyderabad

(Indian Express)

(GS Paper 3, Biodiversity)

Context:

Recently, the city of Hyderabad was identified as a ‘Tree City of the World’ by the Arbor Day Foundation and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
It is placed alongside 119 other cities from 63 countries.
Hyderabad is the only city in India to get this distinction.

Tree City:

This is an international effort to recognize cities and towns devoted to making sure that their urban forests and trees are properly maintained, sustainably managed, and thoroughly celebrated.
This program aims to interlink cities around the world while applying the most effective approach to manage community trees and forests.
This is a flagship initiative of Arbor Day Foundation and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

About Arbor Day Foundation:

This is a nonprofit conservation and educational institution. It was founded in 1972 in the USA.
This largest nonprofit institution dedicated to tree planting helps spread awareness of how the tree could be a solution to numerous issues we face today globally. Namely, air quality, water pollution, climate change, hunger, and urbanization.

Why Hyderabad:

The effort of Hyderabad to the growing and maintaining the urban forest cover through the Haritha Haram scheme and the urban forest parks.
Hyderabad became the first city in India to gain this accolade.

Haritha Haram scheme:

This is a Telangana government’s initiative to drastically boost the green cover of the State.
Rejuvenating degraded forests, protect them from being smuggled, catching fire through the multi-layered approach of moisture conservation and other effective ways.

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Ajit Satapathy