Rebirth of a tree

in the city of Nagpur, in central India, a 150 year old banyan tree with the girth of 37 ft had been dying a slow death. Excavations for road widening and haphazard dumping of garbage around the tree appeared to be making the tree into wood. Some active citizens came together to save the tree from almost certain death. After their persistant efforts local muncipal body agreed to adt and cleared the polythene and garnage that was suffocating the root holding soil. A Pest control firm treated the soil for termite control. With the tree's degradation its aerial shoots have stooped growing downwards. Activists have attached sacks of soil to their tips and water those sacks regularly.

Efforts of all these people seem to be bearing fruits and the banyan tree is begining to reviving and is beginning to sprout fresh leaves once again.

With this banyan tree on its way to recovery, activists have identified other rare tress that need to be saved. They have turned their focus on one of the only two remaining Baobab tree, which is getting buried in a grwoing dump hill.