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 interests of people living in cities like Mysuru and Bengaluru.
Addressing a press conference in Madikeri yesterday, Muthanna, who is also the Convenor of Save Kodagu and Save Cauvery movement, said that even as the man-animal conflict has reached its worst phase in Kodagu where human lives are lost almost every day due to this kind of projects that destroyed the forests, politicians are hell bent on bringing projects like four-lane highways and Railway lines to facilitate connectivity at the cost of environment.
