Save Thano | Save Thano Forest | Chipko Movement | India Against Defores...

Save Dehradun's 10000 Trees from being Cut for an Airport Expansion. The Thano jungle is a part of Rajaji National Park. It has beautiful inhabitants like elephants deers leopards wild boars, pengolins, mangoose, Snakes Himalayan high peak birds etc. With a shivalik elephant corridor nearby. We may loose (2500) Sal trees, Sheesham (2135), kher (3405),sagon(185), Gulmohar (120) including 25 other varieties of 10000 Timber trees which are from the British Era. The Uttarakhand authorities has sought the National Wildlife Board’s approval to switch 243 acres of forest land to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for increasing the Jolly Grant Airport. Already so much deforestation has happened in the Himalayan region for the "all weather road" we cannot afford more felling of trees. Think about it....