City ecologist Vijay Nishanth and Bengaluru NavaNirmana Celebration (BNP) on Thursday wrote to Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to convene a state wildlife board assembly on the earliest and clear the proposal to declare Hesaraghatta grasslands as a conservation reserve.
“In view of your nice assist and concern for environmental points and wildlife conservation, we attraction to your good self to convene the state wildlife board assembly on the earliest for clearance of the mission. Bengaluru is in determined want of this inexperienced cowl within the north west components of town attributable to depletion of groundwater, lack of inexperienced cowl and flooding throughout monsoon,” Nishanth mentioned in a letter to the CM.
A duplicate of the letter was additionally despatched to Chief Wildlife Warden Vijaykumar Gogi and Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (head of forest power) R Ok Singh.
In his letter to Bommai, founder and normal secretary of BNP, Srikanth Narasimhan mentioned, “In assist of the petition to avoid wasting Bengaluru’s final surviving grassland at Hesaraghatta, the Bengaluru NavaNirmana social gathering (BNP) requests you to declare the whole 5,010 acres of the Hesaraghatta grassland as a conservation reserve.” He additional added, “This can be a distinctive ecosystem with a combination of grassland, scrubland, and a lake in Namma Bengaluru. The Hesaraghatta lakebed space and grasslands within the surrounding catchment space within the northwest of Bangalore are necessary reservoirs of biodiversity. Along with supporting wildlife, these grasslands additionally present helpful ecosystem providers which can be vital to the residents of Bangalore.”
The letter identified that Hesaraghatta is house to a number of distinctive species of wildlife, lots of that are endangered right now and added that the grassland was witnessing “a fierce battle” for its survival. “For hundreds of years, cattle have been grazed on an indigenous number of grass. Hesaraghatta Lake, which is likely to be revived as a catchment space, was a major provide of consuming water for Bangalore till round 1994. Whereas different grasslands of town like Malleswaram, Yeshwanthpur, and Hebbal have already paved the best way for town’s improvement, Hesaraghatta is the only real Bengaluru grassland that must be preserved in its pure state,” the letter mentioned.