Students campaign against cutting of trees in Patna zoo

Hundreds of students associated with Taru Mitra (Friends of Trees) in Bihar Saturday began a campaign against the government's plan to cut nearly 4,000 trees in the Patna zoo for airport safety.
Taru Mitra, a student movement to protect and promote a healthy environment on earth, has also planned a march Saturday to protest the move to cut trees in the zoo, the only green cover for the city's two million people.
'We will also submit a memorandum to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, seeking protection of the trees,' Father Robert Athickal, coordinator of Taru Mitra, told IANS.
Rajesh Kumar, a Taru Mitra official, said: 'Students will also hold a demonstration inside the zoo to protest the cutting of trees.'
The zoo is formally known as the Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park and houses a variety of trees such as semal, bamboo, amaltas, banyan, kusum, arjun and putranjiva.
According to a zoo official, the state government is under tremendous pressure to cut trees to remove obstruction in the approach path of the aircraft by Aug 31, the deadline given by the ministry of civil aviation.
28/08/10 IANS/Sify

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