Shivamogga: An Indian bison was poached and skinned in Sampekatte, Hosanagar taluk, raising concerns about illegal hunting activities in the Malnad re.

As a young boy growing up in the small town of Chitradurga in central Karnataka, Apoorva BV often spent time observing the natural world. “Animals, birds and insects have always been my favourite topics since childhood,” says the Bengaluru-based beekeeper and beekeeping educator, who has recently set up a one-of-its-kind Bee Museum at the Keladi Shivappa Nayaka Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences in Iruvakki, Shivamogga. Like most of his peers, he went on to join an engineering college, but by his third year, he found himself drawn into the world of bees after attending a beekeeping session organised by senior beekeeper, S M Shanthaveeraiah of Chandana Madhuvana Gramina Abhivruddhi Sangha, a non-government organisation (NGO) focused on rural development. It first started as a hobby, explains Apoorva, who began by keeping these insects in his bedroom, close to the windows, where he could observe them, “especially the first flight of the day, which happened at a particular time every day.” He also began offering help to farmers who attended the beekeeping programmes run by Shanthaveeraiah’s NGO, even volunteering as an assistant trainer. “I then started to explore how I can make this a profession. After graduation, I started to travel across the...

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Shivamogga MP B.Y. Raghavendra and other BJP leaders at a press conference in Shivamogga on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: S.K. Dinesh The Shivamogga district unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold a series of programmes for over a month from Thursday to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday and the completion of his 25 years in public service, BJP Member of Parliament (MP) B.Y.

On August 29, hundreds of farmers from Hosanagara taluk in Shivamogga district marched about nine kilometres from the Ganesha temple at Karanagiri to Hosanagara town, protesting against the latest draft notification proposing to declare large parts of the Western Ghats an Ecologically Sensitive Area (ESA). Farmers across Shivamogga and neighbouring districts in the Malnad region are planning similar protests in the coming days. Their central demand is that the Karnataka government conduct a physical survey of the land and exclude human settlements and cultivated areas from the proposed ESA boundaries. The chain of events that led to this notification began with another march nearly four decades ago — one that set out to save the Western Ghats. On November 1, 1987, two groups of scientists, ecologists, environmentalists, and activists began walking simultaneously from the northern and southern extremities of the Western Ghats — Navapur in Dhule district, Maharashtra, and Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu — towards a common meeting point in Goa. Among the organisers and participants were anthropologist Kailash Malhotra, S.R. Hiremath, Pandurang Hegde, and several others from Karnataka. Along the route, participants held public meetings and documented the ecological condition of the landscape. The effort culminated in a conference...

For 12 students of the Government Higher Primary School at Kade Nandihalli in Shikaripur taluk of Shivamogga district, this Independence Day will remain a special one — they got to take a helicopter ride over their village as part of the celebrations.

BJP workers took part in a bike rally in Shivamogga as part of the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign, ahead of Independence Day celebrations. The event, organized by the district youth wing of the party, saw…