Page 13 - Jan-Mar 2017

VOl. 14 No. 1
FOREST MAZE

Help me find
my way Neem tree
Banyan tree purifies the
is the national air.
tree of India.
NO YES NO
YES

Chitrakoot
forest is in
Assam.
Deciduous NO
trees shed YES
leaves .
YES NO

Peepal trees
are flowering
trees.
Britishers’ YES
implemented the NO
Indian Forest Act
of 1927.
YES NO

tREE tESt Trees change their
colour with seasons
given below are the scientific names of trees. Find out the common names and inspiring nature lovers
its name in your native language. and poets like Tagore.
Which is your favourite
Scientific Name Common Name Native Name nature poem and poet?
1 shorea robusta
2 Cocos nucifera
3 Ficus benghalensis
4 Tectona grandis
5 santalum album

BraVE TIMMaKKa aNd
HEr BaNYaNS!
eighty-year-old saalumarada Timmakka
has planted and nurtures 284 banyan
trees along the 4 km road between
Kudur and hulikal villages in Karnataka’s
ramanagara district. Can you name
another green Braveheart?

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