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Restoration of protected forests-Devarakadu, Gomala, Oruduve & River banks of coorg, to save River CAUVERY.
Dr.B.C.NANJAPPA C.
started this petition to
President of India, Ministrey Of Environment & Forests, Govt of India
COORG
is a land with abundant & diversified natural ecosystem,
recognised by UNESCO as one of the Biodiversity Hotspots of the world.
Kodavas & other original inhabitants of coorg
are
nature worshippers
. The forefathers of Coorg have donated large tracts of their lands in the name of village dieties to be preserved as
virgin forests
called
DEVARA KADU(Sacred grove)
.
OORUDUVE
for the village community use ,
GOMALA
for grazing of cattle & similarly protection for
Cauvery River Banks.
All these lands are now classified as
protected forests
& under
reserved forest
category for the purpose of
protection & conservation
. There were about
40,000
acres of such lands in Coorg in the year
1904.
Today hardly about
7,000
acres are left, due to large scale
illegal encroachments
with the
unholy nexus
between
migrant encroachers, Politicians & officials of Karnataka Forest
Department
. In-spite of very rigid forest anti encroachment laws, to
prevent & evict
any illegal encroachment, these laws have not been implemented due to lack of
political will
, as these areas are
fertile vote banks
for politicians from all the major political parties. Now there is a urgent need to
implement the law of the land
,
survey & bifurcate the land, evict all the illegal encroachers & preserve these lands for our posterity.
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