Tree Day was started in the Indian city of Hyderabad on 15 May 2016 to protest against the government's plans to cut down thousands of trees around the KBR National Park. The Government of Telangana had proposed a Strategic Road Development Plan (SRDP) under which the entire KBR Park periphery also called the KBR Park Eco-Sensitive Zone would be affected. This would lead to a significant impact on the flora and fauna of the park that houses more than 600 species of plants, hundreds of species of animals and birds. Tree Day was organised by a group called Hyderabad Rising, a group of non-partisan, non-political nature lovers who came together for a small protest rally in the last week of April. This gradually started taking shape as a movement, with hundreds to thousands of residents of Hyd
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