NMDC pipelines have not damaged Tree ferms but normal ferns
Vivek Acharya District Forest Officer Dantewada responding to Yashwant Ramteke’s pictures of damaged Tree Ferns due ti NMDC pipelines says that the ferns in the picture are not Tree Ferns but they are normal ferns which are found in many cold and humid areas in India. Tree Ferns can be called the oldest plants in the world and there are only around 250 of them there in Dantewada and none of those trees have been damaged by the NMDC pipelines