Uday Krishna Peddireddi: On a mission to relocate trees under threat

The biggest casualty of road-building are trees; he is trying to save as many of them as he can

“No road is safe,” says Uday Krishna Peddireddi. He’s not talking about traffic or road accidents. 

The biggest casualty of road-building is trees. All over India, as urbanisation grows and more roads are built, more trees lose their lives. To be sure, trees are planted as compensation. But can anyone really compensate the destruction and death of a tree that is hundreds of years old?

Peddireddi’s mission is relocation of trees — to save them not just from immediate and imminent danger such as road widening, but also seek out safer places in Hyderabad so that the translocated trees do