Mangaluru : The four-laning of the road from Addahole to BC Road will start in September, over 7,000 trees will be axed and 4,500 trees have already been axed from Uppinangady to Gundya MP Nalin Kumar Kateel said. Speaking at a review meeting chaired by him on Tuesday at Zilla Panchayath office, he said that […]
Mangaluru : The National Environment Care Foundation, a body of green activists, on Friday urged the government to withdraw from its decision to build a district office complex on 5.89 acres at Padil to save trees. Addressing press persons here, Shashidhar Shetty, convener of the foundation, said many trees would have to be cut for […]
Madikeri: Tribals displaced from the Diddalli reserve forest in Kodagu district have cancelled a proposed protest after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah promised to call a meeting to look into the demand to rehabilitate them. The chief minister called up freedom fighter H S Doreswamy who visited Diddalli on Monday, and promised to call a meeting soon […]
Chikkamagaluru: Home Minister G Parameshwara on Friday promised to facilitate the early release of the pending Rs 2.19-crore student scholarship funds from the Department of Social Welfare. Presiding over the quarterly Karnataka Development Programmes (KDP) progress review meeting held here, Parameshwara, who is also the district in-charge minister, reacted to the demand of MLA D N Jeevaraj. The legislator […]
Mangaluru: The Forest Department has decided to take action against people who prune or cut off trees near their premises. It is said that in 2012-13, the department had planted about 3,200 saplings on the Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway between Padil and B C Road, but now most of them are dead. Sources say that various […]
Shivamogga: Ninety-year-old Indira, arguably the oldest tusker in Karnataka, died at the Sakrebailu elephant camp near here early on Monday morning. Indira was brought to Sakrebailu in 1968 along with two other elephants, Balarama and Bhaskar. The elephants had been captured during the Khedda operation at Kakanakote near Mysuru. While Balarama and Bhaskar were later […]
Madikeri: The Forest Department has been trying hard to check man-animal conflict in its area, yet, 27 people have lost their lives in the last three years in Kodagu. Wild elephants have been creating havoc in the villages bordering the forests, with both farmers and coffee planters finding it difficult to save their crops. The […]
Udupi: “Deforestation is the main reason behind lack of rainfall and drastic increase in temperature. Conservation of inherit forests is must for the future generation,” said district in-charge Minister Pramod Madhwaraj. He was speaking after releasing New Year Diary of Karnataka State Forest conservers Association Sub Division and Kudremukh wildlife sanctuary Karkala and inaugurating the […]
Puttur: In an incident reported, a leopard got caught in a trap laid for wild boar at Malethody, Kolthige village in Puttur on Wednesday morning. Forest officials released the leopard at Bisle Ghat Reserve Forest. It is said that Balakrishna Kedilaya had laid a trap for wild boar in his plantation. However, when his son […]
Puttur: A very strong whirlwind that lashed many parts of Siribagilu village in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district, left a trail of destruction in the reserve forests and nearby places, uprooting several trees and damaging crops in the region, Forest department officials said today. The winds that swept an area with a radius of […]
