Mapping Urban Forestry
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In November 2014, the Bengaluru Bruhat Mahanagar Palike (BBMP) announced that only three trees are felled everyday - this adds up to about 1100 every year.
The February edition of GeoBLR will feature Project Vruksha (http://vruksha.com/) - a movement to quantify biodiversity through scientific tree census. Vruksha's founders believes that accountability and conservation can be realised by documenting existing trees. Project Vruksha members will talk to us about urban forestry, tree census, the mapping practice, tools, research and highlight use cases.
Vijay Nishanth
Vijay Nishanth is an urban conservationist and animal activist. He worked as an intern at Atree, and has also been a volunteer for Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)'s Forest Cell for more than 10 years.
Shariff S
Shariff builds the tools for tree census at Vruksha. He brings expertise in GIS systems and e-commerce solutions.
Photo CC by SA Jack French (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackfrench/)