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,...
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...
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...
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...
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!”, 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...
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,...
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...
This year’s Kannada Rajyotsava will be a bitter pill for Kodagu which merged with Karnataka on November 1, 1956. It was exactly 58 years ago that the independent Coorg State merged with Karnataka following...
