ONGOING ELEPHANT CENSUS IN COORG: IS IT A FARCE?
By P.T. Bopanna It will not be an exaggeration to say that elephants do not live anymore in the forests of Kodagu, but they are found only in the coffee estates. Hence, ideally any...
Category: Environment
KARNATAKA PLANS TO REMOVE ‘DEEMED TAG’ FROM SACRED FORESTS
By P.T. Bopanna The Congress government in Karnataka headed by chief minister Siddaramaiah is engaged in a diabolical game plan to remove the ‘deemed forest’ tag from devarakadus (sacred groves) in Kodagu (Coorg) district...
WESTERN GHATS: KERALA TIMBER LOBBY DICTATING TERMS TO KARNATAKA?
By P.T. Bopanna Is the Karnataka government dancing to the tune of Kerala timber lobby yet again to dilute the Kasturirangan report? The report seeks to protect the fragile ecosystem in the Western Ghats,...
ECO DISASTER: RAIL LINE FROM KERALA TO SLICE THROUGH COORG FORESTS
By P.T. Bopanna Close on the heels of cutting down 50,000 trees in Coorg to make way for the high-tension power transmission line to supply power to Kerala, a new project has been...
ONLINE CAMPAIGN AGAINST RAILWAY LINE TO COORG GOES VIRAL
By Sundar Muthanna A social media campaign has been launched to protect Coorg from a railway track that is being planned from Mysore. The reason being that it may require lakhs of trees to...
EXCLUSIVE: STATE FOREST CHIEF SAYS KODAGU FORESTS NOT ‘DISAPPEARING’
Karnataka’s principal chief conservator of forests G. V. Sugur has maintained that forest cover in Kodagu has increased, contrary to the perception that forests have been “disappearing” in the ecologically sensitive areas in the Western...
KODAGU HIGH TENSION POWER LINE: SIDDU-MODI BHAI BHAI!
SIDDU-MODI BHAI BHAI! KARNATAKA CHIEF MINISTER SIDDARAMAIAH HAD CALLED PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI A ‘MASS MURDERER’ IN THE RUN-UP TO THE LAST LOK SABHA ELECTION. THE GOVERNMENTS HEADED BY THE SWORN POLITICAL ENEMIES NOW...
“THE WORLD IS STILL BEAUTIFUL UPSIDE-DOWN, NOT YOUR FUTURE”!
“The world is still beautiful, upside-down, not your future!”, says a hand-painted wildlife message card sent to me by my friend and Virajpet-based physician Dr S.V. Narasimhan. Dr Narasimhan’s message is very true...
GREENS IN KODAGU BAT FOR KASTURIRANGAN REPORT TO SAVE GREENERY
Environmentalists have sought the implementation of the recommendations of the Kasturirangan report on conservation of the Western Ghats to preserve the greenery of Kodagu. Addressing a news conference at Madikeri on Thursday,...
KASTURIRANGAN REPORT: SETBACK FOR POLITICIANS AND TIMBER LOBBY
In a setback for the Kodagu politicians who had started a disinformation campaign against the Kasturirangan committee report on conserving the Western Ghats, a state-level expert committee which visited Kodagu recently to gather opinion...
