Vata Foundation saving trees in Hyderabad

     Written by : Others | Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 11:03 AM

Vata Foundation saving trees in Hyderabad

As cities grow, expanding their boundaries, and look at ways of tackling urban challenges like traffic congestion, trees are increasingly becoming a casualty, not just in Hyderabad, but across the world.

the city-based Vata Foundation becomes crucially relevant. The foundation, for the last six years, has been translocating trees that are about to fall, have fallen, or were marked to be chopped down, free of cost to a safer location.

The volunteer-based organization, founded in 2015, is headed by Uday Krishna, Jyothi Konda, and Sumesha Reddy, all from different professional backgrounds, but who believe in doing their bit to save the environment. In fact, during the pandemic, the organization was able to save about 455 trees in Telangana.

Recently, Vata Foundation has begun the trimming exercise and digging around the roots as a prelude to the gigantic task of translocating about 33 fully grown trees from the compound of the demolished Secretariat to private land in Shamshabad.