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Campaign to ‘save' Eastern Ghats

HYDERABAD: The proposed new Greens Alliance for Conservation of Eastern Ghats (GrACE), is expected to serve as a unified platform for a protracted struggle to save the bio-diversity of the Eastern Ghats that was in danger of being lost in the name of development.

At a press conference here on Friday, K. Leela Laxma Reddy, president, Council for Green Revolution that is spearheading the movement, said they had in a years' time from June 5 last year, planted about 1.60 lakh saplings in schools across 120 villages.. What was encouraging was the 80 per cent survival rate of the saplings, she said.

Environmentalist K. Purushotham Reddy said GrACE, to be launched at Sundipenta near Srisailam on June 5, was an attempt to save the precious natural wealth of the Eastern Ghats extending to about 1,700 km from the fringes of Bengal right down to the South. It stretched about 900 km in Andhra Pradesh, he said and expressed happiness that the Nallamala forests still retained its wealth. Former State Information Commissioner R. Dileep Reddy said GrACE was expected to bring together over a 100 organisations that were working for different causes.

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