A new bus terminus near Bangalore City market would displace thousands of birds

The Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has plans to construct a modern bus terminus in the vicinity of the 300-year-old Sri Lokamatha Ayappa temple near the city market. Such a bus terminus would see nearly 8,000 birds lose their habitat.
The birds are rose-ringed parakeets, mynahs, owls and crows and they nest in the 25 odd trees around the temple - these birds have been here for half a century and they will be displaced once the trees are felled to make way for the terminus.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 25 December 2016.

The temple authorities were shocked when the BMTC marked the trees for chopping on December 19 and the temple administration has taken up the matter with the authorities and have also petitioned the principal chief conservator of forests and the chief wildlife warden on Friday.
The trees located in the surroundings of the historical temple provide some relief to the pollution.
The authorities have assured that they would make efforts to protect as many trees as possible but some of them will have to be felled to make way for the new Traffic and Transit Management Centre because Kalasipalya is a transit hub, and it is necessary to build a modern terminus there to improve public transport facilities in the city.


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