Hyderabad Recognised as ‘2020 Tree City of the World’ by FAO

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Telangana’s capital, Hyderabad has been recognized as a 2020 Tree City of World, by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Arbor Day Foundation, for its commitment to growing and maintaining urban forests.
2020 Tree Cities of the world recognition is the second year of the programme, which features 120 cities from 63 countries.
Hyderabad is the only city from India to have been recognized as a Tree City, till date. With this recognition, it has joined a network of like-minded global cities which recognise the importance of trees in building healthy, resilient and happy cities
Most of the cities were from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.