Valuable trees were felled and transported on Tuesday by residents of Belavadi, near Ramanathapura in Hassan district due to a difference of opinion with the village forest committee.
Neither the forest department personnel nor the police could take any action even as hundreds of trees were cut down.
The Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation had bagged the contract to fell and transp
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/officials-helpless-villagers-axe-trees
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/deccan-herald-bangalore
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/karnataka
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hassan-d
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/trees
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wood
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/paper-and-pulp-industry
