Mysore/Mysuru: Coorg Wildlife Society (CWS) has taken a significant initiative by installing mesh waste bins at all four entrances of the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve — H.D. Kote Gate (Kallatti Gate or Metikuppe Gate), Veeranahosahalli Gate, Karmad Gate and Nanachi Gate. This proactive step aims to ensure a plastic-free environment and eliminate the usage of single-use…
Mysore/Mysuru: While many institutions, residents associations, NGOs and government bodies were busy planting saplings and watering them inside their premises in Mysuru yesterday as part of World Environment Day, a group of youths ventured into the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve near Anechowkur Gate to pick up trash by the side of the roads that had been…
Madikeri: In an appeal to the people to resist highways and rail lines passing through Kodagu that will ultimately result in drying up of River Cauvery, former President of Coorg Wildlife Society Col. (Retd.) C.P. Muthanna said that people must support environmentalists who are fighting for the cause of Kodagu district and for the larger…
Former 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….
Madikeri: Coorg Wildlife Society (CWS) Hon. Treasurer C.S. Poovaiah, has tendered his resignation from the post over violations of the Society bylaws by certain individuals in CWS. In his letter to the President of CWS dated Feb. 18, 2020, Poovaiah has stated, “It is with anguish and a heavy heart I am writing this letter…
Madikeri: Coorg Wildlife Society President K.C. Biddappa has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi and Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar urging them to shelve the proposed Railway project from Kushalnagar to Madikeri through the ecologically fragile hilly…
Coorg Wildlife Society President writes to MP Pratap Simha not to widen NH-275 into four-lane in Kodagu Mysuru: The project to widen a section of NH-275 connecting Bengaluru, the commercial capital of Karnataka and Mysuru, the cultural capital, linking it with Mangaluru, Kodagu and parts of Kerala, has received criticism as critics feel that the…
Mysuru: The President of Coorg Wildlife Society K.C. Biddappa has also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister for Transport Nitin Gadkari, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, Cabinet Secretary P.K. Sinha, Principal Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office Nripendra Misra and Karnataka Chief Secretary Vijay Bhaskar requesting them to prevent the proposed widening of the existing two-lane…
Mysuru: The Coorg Wildlife Society (CWS) has requested the State Government to continue the existing policy of total ban on conversion of agricultural land, plantation land and paddy land into commercial and residential layouts in Kodagu. In a letter to Chief Secretary T.M. Vijay Bhaskar, President of CWS K.C. Biddappa has said that one of…
Bengaluru: The Centre yesterday told the Karnataka High Court that there is no proposal to build a Railway network from Thalassery to Mysuru via Kodagu. A two-Judge Bench headed by acting Chief Justice L. Narayanaswamy and Justice Dinesh Kumar was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filled by Coorg Wild Life Society challenging the Railway…
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