The Maharashtra Cabinet has exceeded a motion plan to shield and hold trees older than 50 years in city areas by way of terming them heritage trees.
Few criteria for considering a tree as a ” heritage tree” are: size, shape, rarity, aesthetical/historical values, affiliation with historic person, region or even myths.
A sure species needs now not be native to a region for this tag.
Components of Plan: The provisions blanketed in the design are the notion of heritage bushes and a diagram of action for conservation, a method to outline the age of the tree, policies to be observed before hacking bushes etc.
Compensatory Plantation: It will include planting the wide variety of timber equal to the age of timber to be cut. The saplings must be six to eight ft in top whilst planting and they will bear geo-tagging with seven years of caring period. The choice of monetary compensation has additionally been given, instead of the compensatory plantation.
State-level Tree Authority:The authority will be fashioned to protect and hold heritage trees.
Tree Census:It will ensure that the tree census is performed after every five years.
Land Use:Ensuring that 33% of government land is used for tree plantation.