Nature enthusiasts in the city have launched an online campaign - Save 1,713 trees at Pragati Maidan - and are also sourcing money through crowd funding to hire a lawyer to "defend the mute trees". The trees proposed to be razed are mostly adult pilkhan trees, and some peepal and bargad too.Less than a month back, residents of RWAs near Aurobindo Marg, south Delhi, forced the state government to revert its decision to axe around 30 healthy neem trees for a road-widening project. Environment minister Imran Hussain himself intervened to stop the damage.
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