Illegal Tree Felling

Following protest, Karnataka Forest Department Cancels Workshop to evolve its Vision Document-2030 in collaboration with KPMG

Key Concerns listed over KPMG involvement gain wide support

Press Release : Bangalore : 2 November 2018
sathodi falls

Following protest, Karnataka Forest Department Cancels Workshop to evolve its Vision Document-2030 in collaboration with K

Peoples Movements, Networks, Academicians, Researchers and Civil Society Organisations reject the Draft National Forest Policy 2018

Demand a fresh policy is evolved through a deeply democratic consultation mechanism and scientific process

Press Release : Bangalore : 14 April 2018

A nation-wide collective of peoples movments, forests peoples and workers struggle organisations, academics, researchers, civil society organisations, etc. have come together to comprehensively reject the Draft Forest Policy 2018 promoted by Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change on the following key grounds, among others:

How to protect trees from needless felling in Bangalore

The third workshop organised as part of ESG's 'How To' Workshop series

Date: 17 February, 2018
Time: 4.30 pm to 7 pm
Venue: @ ESG Workshop Space, 1575, Ring Road, Banashankari II Stage, Bangalore 560070. https://goo.gl/maps/5jrH71vvnC12
Tree

How to Save Trees Workshop

 

How to get Ward Committees to work for the city

A 2nd Workshop in the ESG 'How to' Workshop series

Date: 19 January, 2018
Time: 5.30 pm to 8 pm
Venue: ESG Workshop Space, 1575, Ring Road, Banashankari II Stage, Bangalore 560070. https://goo.gl/maps/u94Ymtnt6L22
Ward Committees

How to Ward Committees

 

How to

 

How to Understand and Comment on the Revised Draft Masterplan (RMP) 2031 for Bengaluru

An ESG "How to do it?" Workshop initiative

Date: 16 December, 2017
Time: 4 pm to 6.30 pm (followed by the screening of a documentary: Our Metropolis)
Venue: ESG Workshop Space, 1575, Ring Road, Banashankari II Stage, Bangalore 560070

 

 

 

BBMP Proposals for Mass Felling of Trees Illegal, in Contempt of Court

BBMP Tree Officer Notice calling for Public Comments has to be withdrawn

Press Release : Bangalore : 10 February 2017
Jayamahal Road Tree line

Jayamahal Tree Felling Illegal, in Contempt of Court

The same law applies to Steel Flyover and other Infrastructure projects as well

 

Jayamahal Road Treeline

Karnataka High Court dismisses PIL demanding planned improvement of roads in Bangalore

Eight year old PIL seeking to protect lakhs of trees and rights of thousands of urban residents, dismissed in minutes

Press Release : Bangalore : 8 June 2015

The Principal Bench of the High Court of Karnataka constituted by Acting Chief Justice Mr. Subhro Kamal Mukherjee and Justice Mr. Ram Mohan Reddy dismissed today W.P.

Bangalore's own Green Ambassador reminds us of what it took to make Bangalore the greenest city in the 1980s

Even as BBMP and the Government dither on complying with High Court directions to involve citizenry in re-greening efforts

Press Release : Bangalore : 1 December 2014
S. G. Neginhal

In "Green lessons from the past"  (published in Deccan Herald, Dec 02, 2014), S. G. Neginhal reveals how extensively and sensitively the Karnataka Forest Department worked to protect the fast depleting greenery of Bangalore during the 1980s.  The article is written by the very man who creatively led the Forest Department's efforts in re-greening Bangalore arduously marshalling popular support and extensive political and administrative endorsement.