Wildlife conservationists raise strong pitch against Hubballi-Ankola railway project

Infrastructure development cannot be conceived at a rate that destabilises societies rooted in the last remaining delicate ecologies of this country, said wildlife conservationists objecting to a meeting organised by a seven-member National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) committee last week to discuss the Hubballi-Ankola railway line project in Uttara Kannada district.

Wildlife conservationist Joseph Hoover told indianexpress.com that he had elaborated his objections to the project in a letter addressed to the Karnataka forest department and the district administration of the Uttara Kannada district.