HYDERABAD: The ‘elephant tree’ at Golconda Fort, the most important baobab outside Africa and Australia, is now beneath danger through local weather exchange and ‘artificial environment’ triggered through increased human activity within the 500-year-old fortress complicated.
Heritage activists stated senior botanists and baobab mavens will have to do a fast ‘health check-up’ of over 430-year-old tree, known as Hatiyan-ka-jhad, in view of a systematic e-newsletter last week in Nature Plants, which published that one of the vital oldest baobab bushes in Africa are all at once demise due to changes in local weather. Baobabs in Africa that have been wholesome six months ago have died due to local weather exchange and pollution, the scientists suspect.
Hyderabad has a couple of dozen baobab bushes. Baobab bushes don't display external signs of wear and tear, however fall all at once due to drying up of the trunk from inside. Apart from golf course, building of a ‘protection platform’ with cement and bricks, and guests mountain climbing on its branches and entering its false cavity has robbed the enormous tree of its natural environs.
Meanwhile, Pillalamarri, the great banyan in Mahbubnagar is on death mattress. It is one of the biggest banyans on the planet and used to be beneath the care of tourism division till it used to be nearly eaten through termite infestation. It used to be passed over to wooded area division and its revival turned into a herculean process. Golconda baobab is beneath the care of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Some of the baobabs within the city have been pulled down for road widening and ORR works. They at the moment are present in Attapur, Secunderabad Club, Ranganath temple, Vanasthalipuram, Chapel Road and Chengicherla reserve wooded area. All those bushes are over 200-year-old.
INTACH city convener P Anuradha Reddy stated the baobabs have been offered to Hyderabad through African and Arab investors, following the Surat-Machilipatnam trade route right through the Qutub Shahi length and previous Bahmani length right through 15th or 16th century CE. “We can find baobabs even within the northern trade route – Delhi-Golconda-Machilipatnam. Baobabs are part of botanical and natural heritage of Hyderabad and they wish to be protected,” Reddy stated.
Heritage activists stated senior botanists and baobab mavens will have to do a fast ‘health check-up’ of over 430-year-old tree, known as Hatiyan-ka-jhad, in view of a systematic e-newsletter last week in Nature Plants, which published that one of the vital oldest baobab bushes in Africa are all at once demise due to changes in local weather. Baobabs in Africa that have been wholesome six months ago have died due to local weather exchange and pollution, the scientists suspect.
Hyderabad has a couple of dozen baobab bushes. Baobab bushes don't display external signs of wear and tear, however fall all at once due to drying up of the trunk from inside. Apart from golf course, building of a ‘protection platform’ with cement and bricks, and guests mountain climbing on its branches and entering its false cavity has robbed the enormous tree of its natural environs.
Meanwhile, Pillalamarri, the great banyan in Mahbubnagar is on death mattress. It is one of the biggest banyans on the planet and used to be beneath the care of tourism division till it used to be nearly eaten through termite infestation. It used to be passed over to wooded area division and its revival turned into a herculean process. Golconda baobab is beneath the care of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Some of the baobabs within the city have been pulled down for road widening and ORR works. They at the moment are present in Attapur, Secunderabad Club, Ranganath temple, Vanasthalipuram, Chapel Road and Chengicherla reserve wooded area. All those bushes are over 200-year-old.
INTACH city convener P Anuradha Reddy stated the baobabs have been offered to Hyderabad through African and Arab investors, following the Surat-Machilipatnam trade route right through the Qutub Shahi length and previous Bahmani length right through 15th or 16th century CE. “We can find baobabs even within the northern trade route – Delhi-Golconda-Machilipatnam. Baobabs are part of botanical and natural heritage of Hyderabad and they wish to be protected,” Reddy stated.
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