Delhi’s green cover has seen a rampant decline in the recent years. Last year in July, citizens of the national capital protested against an order that approved the felling of at least 14,000 trees for the redevelopment of south Delhi neighbourhoods.
Recently, the Supreme Court even warned the Haryana government to not touch the green lungs of Delhi-NCR, an ecological sensitive zone for construction.
The Haryana Assembly had on February 27, passed amendments to the Act opening up thousands of acres of land in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Nuh, Mahendragarh and Rewari to real estate and other non-forest activity in the area that was protected under it for over a century.