Just how serious the civic body is about preserving the city's green cover is evident from the status of its Tree Census. Five-and-a-half years since the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) conducted a tree census — which would tell the total number of trees or of a particular species in a particular area and which will ultimately help preserve the city's tree cover — the report is yet to be published.

The civic body had started counting trees with a GPS (Global Positioning System) tag from February 10, 2014 and was supposed to complete it in a year. As per the announcement, the civic body was to publish the location of each tree along with its species name. But as the BMC's garden department is busy publishing notices on objections/suggestions from the public before giving permission to cut trees, nothing has been published on the GPS-based tree census yet.