Mysore/Mysuru: With just hours to go for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to perform the ground-breaking ceremony for the Access-Controlled Four-Lane Expressway between Mysuru and Kushalnagar, the Kodagu Ex-Service Personnel Association has raised an objection to it and urged the PM to shelve the project and help them protect their homeland from destruction. Addressing a press…
‘End man-animal strife in Kodagu through policies’
March 13, 2021Former President of Coorg Wildlife Society writes to CM and suggests sustainable ways and means Mysore/Mysuru: In the wake of increasing man-animal conflict and tiger attacks in Kodagu where at least three human lives have been lost within a span of 15 to 20 days, former President of Coorg Wildlife Society Col. (Retd.) Cheppudira P….
Coorg Wildlife Society ex-President suffers fracture in wild tusker attack
November 4, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Coorg Wildlife Society former President Col. (retd.) C.P. Muthanna sustained a fracture when a wild tusker attacked him at his estate in Ammathi, South Kodagu this morning. Col. Muthanna was on his usual morning walk at his estate, when the tusker attacked him. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was provided…
Kodagu Rain Disaster: Preparing a Road Map for the Future
September 3, 2018By Col. (Retd.) C.P. Muthanna, President, Coorg Wildlife Society Foreword According to Col. C.P. Muthanna, President, Coorg Wildlife Society, in the aftermath of the recent devastation of landslides that flattened a few hills in North Kodagu following unprecedented heavy rains, it is wise and imperative to adopt Ecologist Madhav Gadgil Committee Recommendations to stop environmental…
PIL filed in HC to stop Mysuru-Kushalnagar Railway Line
July 12, 2018Mysuru/ Bengaluru: The High Court of Karnataka has asked the State Government to respond to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed against the proposed Mysuru-Kushalnagar Railway Line. The State has to respond by July 25 and the Court has adjourned the hearing to that date. The petition (WP 17990/2018) was filed on 24-4-2018 by President…
Thalassery-Mysuru Railway Line Project : Remove K.C. Venugopal from AICC post, demands green activist from Kodagu
June 23, 2018Madikeri/ Mysuru: President of Coorg Wildlife Society Col. (Retd.) C.P. Muthanna, who is also the Coordinator, Save Kodagu and Cauvery Campaign, has demanded the immediate sacking of K.C. Venugopal from the post of All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary (Karnataka In-charge) for exerting pressure on the State Government to implement the disputed Thalassery-Mysuru Railway…
‘Fight against Railway lines via Kodagu will continue’
March 7, 2018Mysuru: The fight against Railway lines in Kodagu will continue till an official communication comes from the Railway Ministry that both the Railway lines via Kodagu — Thalassery-Mysuru and Mysuru-Kushalnagar — are scrapped. This was disclosed by Coorg Wildlife Society President Colonel (Retd.) C.P. Muthanna, who is spearheading the movement against mindless Railway projects that…
An Appeal : Support to Save Kodagu from Destruction
February 6, 2018The Environment, the Forests, the Landscape and the very future of Kodagu and its people are at stake due to the proposals for two destructive projects of Railways and four Multi-lane National Highways through Kodagu. With the felling of lakhs of trees across Kodagu, the death of River Cauvery will be only a matter of…
MP Pratap Simha must intervene: Col. Muthanna
January 6, 2018Madikeri: Reacting to the construction of the Railway building at Stone Hill in Madikeri, Col. Cheppudira P. Muthanna, President, Coorg Wildlife Society, who is spearheading a movement to stall the Rail projects, told Star of Mysore this morning that it was an unfortunate development. “MP Pratap Simha must use his influence to stall the construction….
Railway Line via Kodagu will decimate local populace, culture
December 28, 2017Madikeri: The proposed two Railway Lines (Thalassery-Mysuru via South Kodagu and Hunsur-Periyapatna-Kushalnagar-Madikeri-Mangaluru) cutting across the green and ecologically sensitive Kodagu district will completely destroy the environment and will result in a major influx of Keralites into Kodagu. Already a sizable number of Keralites live in Kodagu and they are controlling the economy of Kodagu and…
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