HYDERABAD: Dressed in black from head to toe – depicting the impact of depleting green cover on the lungs -- members of Fridays for Future, Hyderabad, held a demonstration outside the Mrugavani National Park, on Friday. The objective: To reinforce the need to protect the city’s two national parks – Mrugavani and KBR – both of which are under threat from infrastructure projects.
Armed with placards which read “# Uproot the system not the trees” or “Don’t encroach on our parks. Save our lives and let them thrive”, this group of 25 volunteers held fort outside the main gate of the park, where the Telangana government has proposed to fell 1,850 trees to make way for overhead power transmission lines.
“Our demonstration is not just for the elected representatives but for the people of Hyderabad who need to wake up to the reality of climate change as their personal issue. We need to all start asking for Ecology over Economy,” said 22-year-old Abdus Sami, part of this green brigade.
Kaajal Maheshwari who has been leading the Save KBR fight for the last six year – there is currently a stay on felling trees here, to make way for the Strategic Road Development Plan – added:
