Trees will also be geo-tagged and this information will be fed into the application for public consumption after the project is completed. Anyone who wants to access details of any tree in the city can go to the application and click on the particular tree. This will lead to information such as girth, species, location, and general health of the tree.
This was evident in the recent meeting held by Bengaluru’s Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) with these companies. While BMC had summoned 14 businesses under the ABS scheme, 13 of them decided to give it a miss. The lone stakeholder who turned up for the meeting had limited knowledge of the rules.
From elephant-proof trenches to railway barricades and from solar power tentacle fences to steel wire ropes, while the forest department has deployed many options to contain the jumbos and reduce human-elephant conflict cases, experts say not much has changed on-ground.