775 reserved bushes lower from simply 4 districts of Kerala, estimates forest division
Express News Service
KOZHIKODE: The state forest and wildlife division has estimated {that a} staggering 775 reserved bushes on assigned land have been lower from simply 4 districts — Thrissur, Wayanad, Kasaragod and Malappuram districts.
While Thrissur accounted for 579 bushes, 161 have been lower in Wayanad, 22 in Kasaragod and 13 in Malappuram. Among the 775 bushes, 634 are teak and the remainder rosewood. All the bushes have been lower from land allotted title deeds (pattayam) primarily based on the controversial order issued by the income principal secretary onOctober 24 final 12 months.
The estimation of felled bushes is in progress in Ernakulam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta and Kollam.
Logs but to be recovered absolutely in Thrissur
An officer informed The New Indian Express that the estimation just isn’t over but in Thrissur district and that 135 cubic metres of logs have been recovered to date. “A majority of the trees felled were in Machad and Pattikad forest ranges in Thrissur,” mentioned the officer, who requested anonymity. Among the bushes lower in Thrissur, 95% is teak.
In Wayanad, in addition to the 101 rosewood felled in South Muttil, the revelation of which introduced the difficulty into the open, 60 teak bushes have been axed at Puthankunnu underneath the Sultan Bathery vary. However, an insider confided that 70 teak bushes have been really felled in Puthankunnu and that 10 weren’t recovered.
In Kasaragod, the bushes have been lower from Nettanige, Padre and Panathadi whereas Nilambur accounted for the bushes lower in Malappuram.
Timber value a number of crores
Though the forest division is but to calculate the worth of the felled bushes, sources mentioned it will run into a number of crores. “The average value of rosewood per cubic metre is Rs 2 lakh, and around Rs 75,000 for teak. A teak tree usually comes to around 0.75 cubic metres while rosewood measures around 3 to 4 cubic metres per tree,” a high official mentioned.
The timber worth would go up within the public sale and the wooden from Wayanad would get extra money as it’s in excessive demand abroad.
