At the foothills of Brahmigiri,Serene home is a nature lovers delight. Gracious hospitality and beautiful surroundings await you at Serene Home. ...
 |
Archive for the ‘Environment’ CategoryHigh Court: Animals should live in their natural habitat and it is up to humans to adjustSaturday, November 19th, 2011The State Govt plan to mitigate the man-elephant by trans-locating the elephants from Coorg & Hassan to the forests near Bangalore has been turned down by the High Court. The high court said;
The Govt has been instructed to seek advise from experts in India & Africa before they plan for such an exercise. The past decade has seen a drastic rise in man-elephant conflict in Hassan & Coorg. Elephants entering farms and plantations has been a common sight in many parts of Coorg. Encroachment by humans of reserve forest, pysari land and revenue forest near their villages, which the elephants had been foraging for long, has only escalated the conflict. According to the last census 260 elephants were counted in Virajpet circle and 245 in Madikeri. Nagarhole National Park had a maximum of 792 elephants and a minimum of 443 elephants with a mean population of 617 elephants. Tags: Elephant Population in Coorg, Elephant translocation, High Court Judgement, Man-Animal Conflict, Man-Elephant Conflict, Nagarhole National Park Zilla Panchayat opposes eco-sensitive zones around Nagarhole. Wondering why.Thursday, November 10th, 2011Read in TOI that Kodagu ZP “has passed a resolution and sent it to the ministry opposing the creation of zones around Nagarahole National Park”. Even the Gundlupet MLA, under whose writ the Bandipur National Park falls has written to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, against the proposal which the govt is planning to enforce. Both say the “villagers will face hardships” if the zone comes into place. What is all this eco-sensitive zones about ? There are 2 kinds of Zone, Zone I & Zone II which are being created around the buffer zone of the National Parks.
To me it seems a very novel idea to fix the man-animal conflict that has been troubling coorg lately. But the ZP thinks otherwise. There is nothing that says agriculture will be banned in the zones. But still ZP is crying foul. Knew about the timer lobby in existence in Coorg, time to welcome the “Mining” & ”Tourism Lobby” ? Tags: Nagarhole National Park, Tourism Lobby, Zilla Panchayat Tourism Lobby vs TigersWednesday, November 9th, 2011Courtesy: CNN-IBN ( Pl allow sometime for the video to load) Tags: Nagarhole National Park, Tigers, Tourism Smart Cattle-Lifter & the Lucky GoatWednesday, November 9th, 2011According to a Report in IBN, the Tigeress which has been prowling south coorg and having a ball with the livestock around has struck back again by bringing down a cow, dragging it for 10 meters and gorging on 10 kg of meat. Interesting to note is that the Forest Department had set up a cage-trap for her, which she visited and gave a friendly pat to the bait(lucky goat) and left. As if to mock the one’s trying to bag her. Smart Tigeress. Tags: Cattle Lifter, Nagarhole National Park, Tigeress Tigers, Eco-sensitive Zones, Politicians & PlantersTuesday, November 8th, 2011Wild Animals moving out of the national parks have become quite a feature in Coorg lately. This time a tigeress which has moved out of Nagarhole National Park has set a record of sorts – she has bagged 25 tame and household animals in the past fifteen days. The “poor” planter who is already braving the assault of the elephants on his crop is now more worried about his livestock. Humans in distress make more sense to many, than giving it a good thought why this phenomenon is being witnessed in Coorg lately. There is no land left for the animals to be precise. Their is hardly any forest cover left around the Reserve Forest or National Parks, due to encroachment, expansion of the the money spinning “caffeine” plantations. Even the Devarakads(Gods own abode) have been encroached by the devils around. And the icining on the cake of woes(man-animal conflict) is that Kodagu Zilla Panchayat now is opposed to the ” eco-sensitive zone proposed around Nagarahole National Park fearing an impact on livelihoods among other “concerns”. The animals are angry…. they thunder… ” this is land of our ajja’s also”. Tags: Cattle Lifter, Eco-sensitive zone, Kodagu Zilla Panchayat, MoEF, Nagarhole National Park, Tigeress Two Poachers Arrested in Bangalore with Tiger bones from DubareWednesday, August 24th, 2011Yesterday the Bangalore Police arrested 2 poachers with tiger bones and parts of other animals. One of the accused has told the police that the tiger was poached in Dubare Reserve Forest. The forest officials are also suspecting the bones to be from Dubare or Nagarhole in Coorg. The poachers have been arrested and a case filed in the Bharatinagar Police Station. Tags: Dubare, Nagarhole, Poachers, Poaching, Tiger Forest Dept to Lokayukta: We have “lost” Sudarshan’s Rap SheetMonday, August 22nd, 2011The Karnataka Forest Department seems to have lost the Lokayukta report indicting and recommending action against G.A. Sudarshan, the Conservator of Forests(presently serving Shimoga), for his involvement in letting the timber mafia chop down trees in the Western Ghats forests in Kodagu in return for a bribe back in 2007. In a apparent move to buy more time instead of taking action against the Conservator of Forests, they have asked the Lokayukta to send a new copy to them. Following the disclosure, G.A. Sudarshan was suspended in 2007, only to be reinstated and brought back to Kodagu at the best of the BJP ex-President Sandanada Gowda. But when things got to heat up after Air Marshal K C Cariappa filing a petition on the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court’s Central Empowerment Committee taking note, he was transferred out of Coorg.
The Virajpet MLA and Speaker, K.G.Bopaiah had even tried to pressurize the ex-cm B.S.Yeddyurappa to reinstate the tainted forest officer and that too – back to Coorg. Sudarshan somehow got his job back and he is now conservator of forests (plans and survey), Shimoga. The former Lokayukta cheif Justice Santosh Hegde has warned the forest department and told them that he knows how to deal with them. Tags: Air Marshal K C Cariappa, Conservator of Forests, G A Sudarshan, Justice Santosh Hegde, K G Bopaiah, Karantaka forest department, Lokayukta, Sadananda Gowda, timber mafia Jairam Ramesh refutes Govt’s charges. Suspects Govt is falling for Vested Interests.Sunday, June 19th, 2011 Jairam Ramesh with U.S. Ambassador Roemer at a function displaying artwork provided by the Ranthambore School of Art. Image Courtesy: US Embassy, New Delhi. Coming down heavily on Karnataka Government’s request to the Center for deletion of the 10 identified sites in Western Ghats, that come under the State of Karnataka, the Union Minister for forest, Jairam Ramesh told Deccan Herald that;
He also said that MoEF had first submitted its dossier on the Western Ghats for Unesco’s heritage status in March 2006 after getting the “approval” from the Karnataka government. That seems to vindicate the stand of the environmentalists that they had nothing to do in proposal of Western Ghats for Heritage Tag. Some Political representatives and eminiment persons like A.K.Subbaiah & Nanda Subbaiah had been claiming for long that the environmentalists in Coorg are behind the move to notify certain areas in Coorg as World Heritage site. The Union Minister also told Deccan Herald that the tag will not threaten human settlements, including tribal populations in the forest. He said “this is totally rubbish and concocted stories by vested interests people who have been looting forest wealth”. Tags: Jairam Ramesh, UNESCO, Union Minister of Forests, Western Ghats, World Heritage Site Reactions on the Karnataka Govt opposition to World Heritage Tag for Western GhatsFriday, June 17th, 2011Reactions are pouring in towards Karantaka Government’s plan to reject the proposal to include Western Ghats as World Hertiage Site by UNESCO.
 Karnataka Forest Minister C.H. Vijayashankar (R) speaking to Media in Kodagu. File Photo. The Forest Minister even refered to UNESCO as a “Foreign Agency” and compared it to East India Company. Netas hand in glove with power, mining Lobbies – TOI Unesco does not interfere with sites - TOI Untenable logic – Karnataka must embrace Unesco tag with pride. – Deccan Herald Tag or no tag, Western Ghats will thrive in Karnataka – DNA Why Karnataka is saying no to UNESCO tag – First Post Fear of eviction unfounded – The Hindu World Heritage tag will not affect life in Western Ghats: experts – The Hindu Tags: Ananth Hegde Ashihara, C H Vijayashakar, UNESCO, Western Ghats, Western Ghats Task Force, World Heritage Site Headbanging on Tadiandamol ?Thursday, June 16th, 2011Last time it was 2 Tigers on Prowl near Tadiandamol, come 11th of November and the head bangers will be on the prowl there. This one made me giggle to myself. Kishor wrote about Storm Festival. Seems Storm Festival is something of a woodstock kind of festival for hard rock music lovers. And this time it is being hosted in India and that too in Coorg, 1750 meters above on Tandiandamol. I was wondering how is it possible for anyone to have such an event in a reserve forest? Doesn’t Tadiandamol and the area surrounding it comes under Pushpagiri or Brahmagiri Wildlife Sactuary ? Secondly, the area has herds of elephant. And there have been instances in the past when trekkers had to leave their camps and run for cover. What about security ? Plus lately the attitude of the elephants have gone a drastic change(for worse) with the drastic depletion of the forest cover and Man-Elephant conflict in Coorg has sky rocketed. Read: Elephants on Rampage in Kodagu . I personally doubt that the festival is being hosted on Tadiandamol, it seems seems to be in a location near the mountain called Bamboo Fields, as mentioned on their official website. The Title on their website is also quite interesting…”Create a Strom in the Midst of Mother Nature”. Lets see if Mama Nature and her denizens appreciate that or not. Tags: Storm Festival, Tadiandamol, Tadiyandamol, Western Ghats
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
