Salumarada Thimmakka, the main inspiration for growing plants for various film personalities. A documentary was made on this award winning environmentalist Thimmakka, A film was also planned in the past on the life sketch of Thimmakka.

Karnataka chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced that tree parks -named after environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka -will be established in every assembly constituency in the state in the state budget. In the first phase, 50 tree parks will be developed on forest land he mentioned in the budget.

Now at Kadalakere ‘Salumarada Thimmakka Vruksha Udyanavana’ foundation stone was laid by legislator K Abhachandra.

In addition to improve the Kadalakere surroundings, the silt in the lake will be removed and the water in the lake would be made available for the people.

‘108 tree parks’ Mangaluru region forest official Dr Sanjay Bijjur said tree parks work is in progress in five places.

In the proposed ‘Tree Parks’ – there will be place for birds, children garden, medicinal plants, walking space for keeping good health etc are proposed.

At the launch of 108 Tree Parks, forest officials S Prabhakaran, Alexander, Ganesh Bhat, Harinakshi S Suvarna, Vinod Seravo, Suresh Prabhu, Abdul Basheer, PK Thomas, Srikanth Kamath, Sampath, Narayana Poojari, Harish Acharya and others were present.