Why isn't anyone jumping up and down about the appalling slaughter of trees seen everywhere in Kathmandu? When asked, the contractors of KMC say it is for road-widening. Fair enough, maybe. But there is no such road-widening in progress in places like Baluwatar, (under the very nose of the powers that be) and many other parts of the city. There, the contractors explain, the trees are being cut for security or culled. You don't have to be an arborist to see that the trees being chopped would indeed be alive for another 50 years or more. So what's going on here? Can somebody from the KMC explain? If such a contract is underway, please monitor them. And you multiple green-NGOs, is it not time to get out there before we all weep for a future treeless, barren, ugly city? I am sure your donors would highly approve.

Jan Salter and Neeta Pokhrel,
Kathmandu