THE KARNATAKA PRESERVATION OF TREES ACT, 1976
PREAMBLE
An Act to make better provision for preservation of trees in the State
Whereas with the growing pace of urbanisation, industrialisation and increasing population, there has been indiscriminate felling of a large number of trees in the rural and urban areas of the State of Karnataka leading to erratic rainfall, recurring famines and floods, soil erosion and consequent ecological disturbances; Whereas it is expedient to provide for the preservation of trees in the State by regulating the felling of trees and for the planting of adequate number of trees to restore ecological balance and for matters connected therewith;
Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :