A crowd-funding initiative by nature lovers and local organisations has saved a banyan tree that is over 100 years old, as per a PTI report. The tree is close to Arambol beach in North Goa?and got uprooted as a result of the heavy rain recently.?
A well-known landmark, foreigners and locals would regularly do yoga sessions in its shade.??
Incessant rainfall had hit the coastal state on August 5, which resulted in the uprooting of the tree, which then fell on the side of the road.?
Heartbroken locals and nature lovers launched an online crowd-funding campaign to re-root the tree.?
Avertino Miranda, coordinator of Goa Green Brigade, said the campaign was launched to collect money to get the tree re-rooted.?
Funds to the tune of around Rs 2 lakh were collected and experts were roped in from Hyderabad for the replanting procedure.
Uday Krishna of Vata Foundation helped re-root the tree, which was planted in a three to four-feet-deep hole, dug with the help of a JCB machine, Mr Miranda said.?
The two-day operation was carried out on August 18, he said, claiming that this was the first time that a crowd-funding initiative was used to replant a tree.?
This was a good move and the initiative taken by the people showed their genuine concern for the natural surroundings.
After all if we do not take care of nature, how do we expect nature to take care of us?