Mysore/Mysuru, Feb. 4 -- With the 'Save Bandipur' posts trending on social media following the completion of the aerial survey for the proposed Nilambur-Nanjangud Railway project by the Government of Kerala, Mysuru-based Gandhada Gudi Foundation, environment activists and other like-minded people staged a protest in front of the Old Deputy Commissioner's Office in city this morning demanding the Karnataka Government not heed to pressure tactics of Kerala Government.

The protesters, urging the State Government to protect wildlife and prevent unnatural deaths of wild animals, demanded the State Government not to lift the night traffic ban in Bandipur Tiger Reserve and not take up road widening works in Bandipur and Nagarahole Forest areas....