Tree cheers for Chennai
(WorldNews India)

This Tuesday, a leisurely well-paced walk through the Kotturpuram Tree Park, as part of the Madras Day Celebrations, was revelatory, to say the least. Among the many useful and good-to-know nuggets of information about the green kingdom and trees indigenous to south India was the one about Arjuna tree that`s among the few trees that have a white bark and is home to the moth that produces the gorgeous tussar silk. Or take the one about pungai maram, whose leaves make for a very effective insect repellent. With one-fourth of Chennai`s green cover having perished in the aftermath of the devastating Cyclone Vardah, the green warriors of Chennai are making a concerted effort to plant trees,...