The issue with Coorg is Kerala. There is massive deforestation in adjoining Kerala forest. Not just in Coorg, but also Nagarahole is suffering owing to Kerala Forest deforestation . The Man-Animal conflict is much lesser in Hassan-Chikkamagaluru-Bhadra and Dandeli range. Kerala looks at Animals as nuisance. The poor animals escape from Kerala and invade neighboring forest with vengeance.
The fact is, many measures were taken by the mining company to arrest pollution and the basic road infrastructure from Mangalore to kalasa was made by the kiocl. It is a fallacy to say that mining destroyed the environment in the ghats. The mining was a small speck in hundreds of square miles.
ಗಾಂಡುಗಳೇ ಅದು ಕುದುರೆಮುಖ kuduremukha not ಕುದುರೆಮುಖ್ kuduremukh. Before filming you should know the correct name of place and you should know how pronounce the word. Jai hind jai Karnataka.
Kudus to our Forest department, the Nature Protectors toiling in extreme weather, far away from family sacrificing for ALL . I SALUTE the great soldiers of nature.
Are there tigers n kudremukh? Is this all hoax by karnataka forest dept? If there are tigers then how come there is no video of single photo of tiger?.
The sentence of Sanjay s bijjur is strikingly inspiring.. " be sure my friends be are protecting it for you and your security " awesome priceless sentence..
I think it's a magnificent way to bring out information of our forests and ecosystem to the rest of people be sure buddy that you're doing absolutely a great job it can change uncounted number of minds and one changed mind can produce a far reaching change so please do your best to educate our loved people of the country keep it up God bless you and your team...
A brilliant film on a topic of vital importance... how unsettling, when the travel corridors that your species is used for millenia are suddenly violated, blocked and encroached upon. This has affected not only elephants, which are of course the largest and among most visible and charismatic wildlife species, but pretty much all of wildlife. Great effort by the film maker, and great ongoing efforts by the Forest Department - hope that all stakeholders come together to solve the problem before it is too late.
Well made, Dilan. But, the reality on ground is totally different. The forest staff are not very indulgent, except for panchanama and collection/submission of claim forms. I've personally tried discussing the issue with a senior IFS officer, who simply said "you'll farmers have encroached forest land, hence the man-animal conflict". When I countered him with " Then what are you doing to reclaim the forest land and stop such conflict? ", he said what can we do? I believe, large funds are granted for maintenance/replantation to the forest dept every year, but honestly, I haven't seen even the trenches being maintained, leave alone planting trees/bamboo in the forests! I myself survived an attack, but the dept made me run from one end to the other, to report the matter. I was not interested (nor did I get) in compensation, but, a solution for the problem. None of the Dept people helped. Sad fact! All we do is crib and be silent, cursing our fate. We need a solution, not just assurances.
Now no use of stoping and keeping the animals in zoo (is like a jail). When people started destroying the nature( the home of many animals,birds and insects) then animals start attending us as they don't get sufficient place for sultry. Animal do get scared and attacks to protect themselves.Animals aren't educated and all animals don't know how to behave with human like zoo animals.As we are cutting down the trees animals are entering out of forests. Plant trees and save trees it keeps you healthy and animals happy then both humans and animals will be safe
The first question is why and who gave permission to convert forest area to coffee plantations ?now we continue to build methods to avoid conflict to the point that Elephants will go extinct one day..
Who gave permission to convert forests to cities. The place all of us live, was a forest once, can we convert them all back including our cities? Just because it was not green when we opened our eyes, does not mean it was never green.
@@madappabb very true..Madappa.. No body converted forest to plantations. Only cites and infrastructure made by mans permission out side forest were animals were living in this world before humans. Today we have reserve forest protection for our world..were kodagu and nabouring forests are dry unrich,fruits less,waterless,etc..funds to protect forests and animal's has cm to governments ,authorities, NGO's etc from all levels of the world.. But these authorities instead showing their love and efficiency to forests they are behind human conflicts now.. Its purely to extract much sympathy and gain monitory benefits..keeping real forest in dark.. Can humans vacate places now.. Who will feed humans if agriculture is not allowed besides forest boundaries.. Who can save small farmers from living his livelihood depending on crops? Speaking without knowing ground reality and watching above ngo forwarded documents are purely to make someone fool.no were in conflict they hv showed farmers death ,school children death by wildanimals,farmers crop loss etc...as if only animal's hv got into trouble. In truth forest department and fake environmentalists are spoiling developments of future animals planet.
There is a bias in the narrative (in the RU-vid video). 60,000 trees in the Nagarahole forest region were felled during the past few years to make way for an interstate electricity line. New roads and highways are being made and existing ones are being widened within the reserve forests. Forest fires have decimated the jungles over the recent years. Why have these major factors not been mentioned? With the loss of their habitat (due to reasons given above), wild animals like elephants and tigers wander into human areas in search of food. Elephants seek out fruits like bananas and Jack fruits grown in agricultural lands. The human-animal conflict has increased over the past few years (and was largely absent a decade or two ago). A coffee tree takes 5 to 10 years to grow. Unlike in Brazil and other areas (where no other plant is grown in plantations), coffee in Kodagu is grown under shade trees.
If the government focuses more on conservation than on tourism (morning I or on planting teak trees and other plants beneficial to individual forest officials inside reserve forests), the animals would have a better life. There are many instances where the government is to be blamed but instead the farmers and other marginal people are blamed. Of course there has been some encroachment in the recent past but that is not the general case. What about the recent case where the PWD wanted 7,000 trees felled around Bangalore. Without trees how can you expect forests to exist. Without forests obviously the animals will wander into human habitations. Genuine concern should be expressed, not hogwash sectarian blaming.
Why only Kodagu is mentioned? Isn’t human animal conflict found in Hassan, Shimoga, Bangalore and other regions as well? Many elephant attacks occurred in Hassan and others areas also (not to mention Tamil Nadu and Kerala). Leopards attacks have occurred in Bangalore. Bisons are commonly sighted in farms in Shimoga. Which city or farm was not a forest in the distant past? Even Bellary and Sindh were forests before they became deserts.
Better make people of Bangalore vecate due to animals has to lived in their own place... All wise people thinks only animals had property in and around kodagu? So ban such ideas and think to develop dead forest to rich lively forests soon.. Fence the area...what ever may the issues or challenges.. Authorities knows very well if all boundaries in Indian forests closed animals will die or starve with hunger..for not getting proper food or even water
Good idea. On a serious note: the human-animal conflict is complex and shouldn’t be dealt as localised issues. Firstly, deforestation, whether due to development works, industrial projects or encroachment, should be halted.
There is a bias in the narrative (in the RU-vid video). 60,000 trees in the Nagarahole forest region were felled during the past few years to make way for an interstate electricity line. New roads and highways are being made and existing ones are being widened within the reserve forests. Forest fires have decimated the jungles over the recent years. Why have these major factors not been mentioned? With the loss of their habitat (due to reasons given above), wild animals like elephants and tigers wander into human areas in search of food. Elephants seek out fruits like bananas and Jack fruits grown in agricultural lands. The human-animal conflict has increased over the past few years (and was largely absent a decade or two ago). A coffee tree takes 5 to 10 years to grow. Unlike in Brazil and other areas (where no other plant is grown in plantations), coffee in Kodagu is grown under shade trees.
There is a bias in the narrative. 60,000 trees in the Nagarahole forest region were felled during the past few years to make way for an interstate electricity line. New roads and highways are being made and existing ones are being widened within the reserve forests. Forest fires have decimated the jungles over the recent years. Why have these major factors not been mentioned? With the loss of their habitat (due to reasons given above), wild animals like elephants and tigers wander into human areas in search of food. Elephants seek out fruits like bananas and Jack fruits grown in agricultural lands. The human-animal conflict has increased over the past few years (and was largely absent a decade or two ago). A coffee tree takes 5 to 10 years to grow. Unlike in Brazil and other areas (where no other plant is grown in plantations), coffee in Kodagu is grown under shade trees.
This vedio is purely missguding and wrongly narrated by animals protectors . This vedio wd be much better if it was focused on kodagu and nabouring reserve forest conditions compared to green shade grown fruity greeny watery rich food coffee plantations and paddy cultivation providing food to humans by farmers. Reserve forests are carrying nothing inside for animals needed..elephants are even left by private owners of kerala and may be circus animals also left in reserve forests ,were they end in near by farmers crops.. Forest officials CD hv thought for birth control in scientific ways to control elephants instead of troubling and killing farmers. Kindly convert Indian reserve forest by doing a honest plans like converting in to animals pradice .. My opinion make a 5×5 years project for minimum 10000 hectares north, east ,west,south of India get it fenced and make all forest researchers, students,professors, environmentalists, involvement, open it after 5 years..again start with new projects and to complete Indian forests as model and richest forest in the world'..instead of thinking and spending money on vedios ,NGO's, forest departments,fake environmentalists, politicians, etc.. Or even u can take confidence of farmers and pay their loyalty every year in scientific manner and request them to stop farming and u promise them paying according to their land holdings with attractive annual money..and also can request farmers to cultivate forest that will be challenged as forest show..to encourage farmers by awarding good forest maintainer. Animals are much before humans..even today's cities are once upon a time animal habitations.Today it's not logical to stray humans keeping forest undeveloped or bare. Coffee plantations are shady grown in kodagu..allways trees are maintained with average shade,never allow earth to dry..in summer u can observe the difference between reserve forests and private plantations in highway entering kodagu thithimathi road..forest will be like dry roast and private lands are full of greens,watery,rich in foods,cool,so animals are attracted and hunger is a treat for poor animals. ANIMALS ARE CHEATED BY LERNER'S AND LAW MAKERS BECAUSE ANIMALS CAN'T SPEAK THE REALITY. only tea plantations done in 70 s thousands of hectares by sm private companies devastated large forest.. But coffee has been replaced and retained for growing pepper gains by coffee farmers. .
A beautiful work in the art sense. But I dont agree with its content. If a department, armed with stringent laws since 1980's, without bail for even an offence of branch cutting in private property or entering a reserve forest even for an emergent loo, with a law abiding population of 80% holding guns but instances of poaching is less than 0.01%, department that holds 25000 acres of private property under a dubious interpretation of law yet the people stand by them in it, where electrification of villages happened in 1960's but electrocution of elephants crossing under the lines happens only from 2000 and criminal cases are filed against JE for negligence (not the other way round); where every project is devised to fail to create a new one; while in rest of karnataka, land granted by the erstwhile kings are private property with full tree rights in its owner, but in Kodagu such lands are still govt lands with tree rights in the forest department; where the fundamental rights of the residents to fearless quality life, and also fundamental rights of the animals to quality life in the forests are both abrogated by the same acts of ommission or part commission of duty; where Forest dept concedes environmentally hazardous projects for unknown gains, and conspires using illogical laws, trial programs, creates human animal conflict to harass, encroach and compel desertion of kodagu residents, all being, nothing short of genocide; this projecting failed statutory duties as larger than life achievements is not correct. It insults the pain of those who lost life, lost income and lives in the fear of loosing them every morning or night. I may be corrected if am wrong, but this is an opinion based on the perceptions of the daily handling of issues, media reports and general talk of the experienced. Hope I am not targeted personally to prove it wrong, but would appreciate constructive result oriented action to prove it wrong.
@@madappabb very true..every sd visit coorg and c the difference between coffee plantations and reserve forest ..any blind can say forest is dryer than estates..these animal lover wd be much appreciated if was projected the real facts and culprits failing in producing planed forest.. Elephants from near by kerala and circus elephants are left in kodagu forest hence they found it expensive etc.. As per history animals were born before humans..that means whole earth were animals habitants..humans made it cities,..buildings, etc...so protection of humans and specially farmers near by forests should be allowed to produce food to humans and forestry sd find a scientific result..even thinking to reduce elephants birth rate in control by using medical advice. These vedio is to make western people happy and misguided the real facts.. Only loss in kodagu is converted tea estates.. in the year were 70 s
