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March 10, 2021January 11, 2022 ESG Author

Making Turahalli a model for urban forests

by Bhargavi S Rao. As the world has become predominantly urban, with the impact of climate change being experienced worldwide, protecting forests everywhere, particularly close to urban areas, is critical.

Forests, especially those near cities, serve in regulating local temperatures, cycling water and nutrients, as repositories of biodiversity, and as a critical resource for the sustenance of rural, pastoral and forest dependent communities. Forests are also sacred spaces for communities that continue to revere shrines inside such spaces.

ESG Opinion Turahalli Forest

February 12, 2021January 11, 2022 ESG Author

Efforts to Conserve Turahalli Gudda, Bangalore’s Urban Forest

By Leo Saldanha and Malvika Kaushik. ESG has renewed its efforts to protect the Turahalli Minor and Reserve Forests in Bangalore, the latest threat to which has come in the form of a proposal to convert the forest into a tree park.

Events Featured Past Events Turahalli Forest

March 11, 2020October 24, 2022 John V

Turahalli Update

Environment Support Group has been helping rock climbers with access related challenges at Turahalli Minor Forest in Bangalore.

Newsletter Popular Publications

August 24, 2023September 2, 2023 Admin ESG

Environment Justice Matters Vol. 4 Issue 11

This issue of EJM focuses on securing land rights to the hakki pikki tribes, Ragikana Santhe, plastics, pollution and forest conservation.

Commons Featured Articles Media Urban Urban Forestry

October 16, 2022June 20, 2023 John V

Concrete galore: The transformation of Bengaluru

The concretising didn’t stop with roads; like a cancer it spread across to pavements, as paved regions into parks, and even into urban forests like Turahalli where, thankfully, public resistance stopped it. But the phenomenon is so widespread now, that it shows up in satellite imageries, and when it rains, the city floods in no time as there is simply no open ground for water to percolate. And in summer ‘heat islands’ result, desiccating what little greenery is left.

Biodiversity Press Releases

January 27, 2022June 12, 2023 John V

Upholding the Republic of Biodiversity: Please Endorse

Demand immediate and complete withdrawal of proposed Biodiversity Act Amendment Bill 2021. A Statement issued by Coalition for Environmental Justice in India on the occasion of 73rd Republic Day of India, 26 January 2022

Campaigns ESG Opinion Featured Articles Media Public Health

June 5, 2021June 20, 2023 ESG Author

Restoring ecosystems to address NCD pandemic

June 5, 2021 marks the 49th year since the UN General Assembly designated the day as World Environment Day, marking the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. The day is globally celebrated with meaningful themes relevant to the challenges at various points of time. This year’s theme is Restoring Ecosystems.

COVID-19 Pandemic ESG Opinion

May 9, 2021October 4, 2022 ESG Author

Restoring ecosystems to address NCD pandemic

The rise in these two NCDs is largely attributed to degradation of our ecosystems due to urban proliferation with decreasing open green spaces, change in lifestyle over the years driven by the nerve-wracking GDP based economic engines, and socio-cultural changes, with a host of other factors contributing to these conditions.

Bengaluru’s ecosystem once comprised of open green spaces such as parks, urban forests, lakes and open public spaces. Such spaces help reduce temperature, improve air quality, cut noise, and provide space for physical activities such as walking, cycling, playing, exercising that help reduce the burden of these NCDs.

Advocacy Bengaluru Climate Action Plan Biodiversity ESG Workshop Reports Webinars

April 21, 2021June 20, 2023 ESG Author

Week 5 Webinar Report: Securing Biodiversity Rich, Healthy, Socially Inclusive and Economically Viable Commons in Bengaluru

“Commons bring people of the city together. It gives an opportunity to mix people from various communities…In a public park you will find people from a diverse set of communities; people from across caste and class economic status and so on and that is important for us to broaden our minds also. Otherwise we are just limited and living in our own silos”

Bengaluru Climate Action Plan ESG Workshop Reports Webinars

March 23, 2021June 20, 2023 ESG Author

Bengaluru’s Climate Action Plan: Inaugural Session Report

The series is a process of engaging with multiple thematic issues, concerns and imaginaries of leading officials of various agencies whose functioning impacts the city, with subject matter experts, youth, representatives of various sectors and residents from diverse sections of the city. And it is also a process of collectivising diverse views and solutions with necessary nuance.