Forest Fires
During the time of summer and any time before the monsoon, the sanjay gandhi national park (SGNP) is a victim of forest fires with at least one in two weeks. Sadly, (not surprisingly) the government and forest department hardly ever do anything and this has resulted in the loss of rare trees and loss of habitat for wild animals. the foul play of locals is often suspected. Often locals burn the trees on some of the outskirts of the forests and make their slums there. after some years the land is acquired by builders and buildings are made.
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Famous quotes containing the words forest and/or fires:
“The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water,—so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one’s fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (b. 1908)