‘Real Estates mess up Woodlots and Green fencing, disables to ward off Peacocks'

bushes lost,peacocks wander-pity

land with buses of Puthur,now for real estate business

‘Real Estates mess up Woodlots and Green fencing, we cannot ward off Peacocks’ said Dr.K.Govindaraju, Director of SEVAI,a Trichy based NGO.He said “We promote watersheds and organic farming and due to intrusion of real estate business men of the cities to the rural areas, they buy the lands with woodlots and dense tree and green coverage and make them plots for construction of homes for city population and market them in overseas those are NRIs at very high cost. Poor farmers lose their land and there is a major crisis for environment degradation. The birds and forest animals like foxes enter into the habilitations and agriculture fields as they have no more homes in their buses and woodlots. Peacocks have become a big worrying factor for the farmers due to the rising population of peacocks and lack of proper natural control had led to a situation where farmers feared cultivating crops or vegetables. In earlier days our lands that are covered with trees, and we have a variety of ways of handling them. The most ecologically safe thing to do with your woodlot, of course, is to never touch it, or even enter it. Leave it completely alone, and don’t let anyone else go onto it, either. Villages earlier had wood lots bushes and trees that acted as a sort of home for birds and green fencing in their farms to protect the crops. In woodlot management, as in all things on the homestead, we balance on the knife’s edge between our survival and that of our land. Woodlots are responsible for a vast ecosystem balance with thousands of parts, and what is the absolute best thing for that ecosystem is not necessarily the best thing for you. Now, they have replaced them with coconut trees. And hence, the fields have now become open to attacks by the peacocks. The birds dug up the vegetables and crops while looking for worms, insects and roots. The damage to crops was more when peacocks moved across the fields. Agricultural lands in Trichy district were the worst hit by the peacock attacks and control the attacks of the peacocks; the best option was to revive the practice of promoting woodlots for the homes for the birds and develop green fencing. The tall, broad, and well-formed, with few dead limbs and no sign of disease are good trees to be maintained in our woodlots. These are your breeder trees, which will seed the next generation. Removing them will rob the ecosystem of their superior genetic material, weakening it and leaving future generations vulnerable to disease and deforestation. Trees the guardians of woodlots; the keepers of its health and fertility. Now we could not see any woodlot or dense forests, the trees are cut. Birds such as peacocks have no shelters and they are in open air, they roam around the fields for their food and survival such as peacocks. The real estate business engulf the rural forest wealth and all the woodlot areas situated in and around 40 kms from a District Headquarters such as Trichy have been bought by real estate owners and covert them as house plots and market them among NRIs residing throughout the World. Those birds such as peacocks and swallows have no place for their survival and breeding. They lay eggs in open air and breed them and they roam around the agriculture  fields .It is high time to protect the bushes and trees of the villages and save the bird population and create a eco balance. Real estate’s are not real protectors of our eco-system and they are greedy making money for them at a heavy cost of losing our nature and environment which harms the mankind. The first things you should be looking at in terms of cutting, though, are the dead standing trees. If they don’t seem to be habitats for wildlife - and the taller they are, the less likely they are to have residents - cut them down. Often, the dead wood alone will support your wood burning or lumber needs, depending on how much wood heat you use or how many fence posts you need. Don’t cut a stick of living wood for fuel until you have completely exhausted the untenanted dead trees. Also, diseased trees should be culled. The idea is to encourage genetic disease resistance in your woodlot. If there are infestations of cocooned bugs such as tent caterpillars, or fungal diseases such as black knot or brown rot which affect only parts of trees, cut the limbs off and burn them, and disinfect your tools after wards'. Govin