Bhubaneswar, May 16 -- By Ashutosh Mishra
Bhubaneswar: One of the biggest casualties of cyclone Fani has been the green cover of the areas hit by it. Destruction of trees in cities like Bhubaneswar and Puri has been massive, making large areas completely bare of any kind of foliage. The capital city, one of the greenest in the country, must have lost thousands of trees of all sizes. Some of these trees were pretty old and their replacement seems virtually impossible.
The cyclone has also taken a huge toll on wildlife sanctuaries like Chandaka and Konark-Balukhand situated in the backyard of Bhubaneswar and Puri respectively. Chandaka has always acted as the green lung of the state capital where pollution has been growing for past sometime...