Lorry trying to dash toward a wild elephant in Bandipura, Karnataka. This is why night traffic ban should be permanent in eco sensitive regions. Drivers like this dont care about animals

1/n | FRESH ENCROACHMENT & TREE FELLING IN PATTANDUR AGRAHARA LAKE Sy 54 in WHITEFIELD? a) According to public bystanders, people claiming to be from Puravankara Group, and employees of CMG Security, belonging to serving minister KJ George, were caught them red-handed felling fully grown trees on a Govt Land, without permission. They were ordered to stop felling and investigation is in progress, according to DCF GBA. b) Lake land background: While the encroachment of 11 acres of the property is a matter sub-judice in an ongoing High Court case, this portion of around 2 acres (south east), is un-encroached land as per the Govt encroachment report - ie., it is undisputed Govt property. (Pls see pic of govt report sketch attached) c) Are these people trespassing and cutting trees in the Govt land? Real estate mafia #encroachment101? d) Further, in the disputed portions of Sy 54, a lot of tree felling has occurred along the periphery of the land parcel, without permission from Forest Dept, in the past few weeks. e) We demand that the BECC Commissioner and GBA Chief Commissioner, immediately take action to secure and protect this Govt lake land, which needs to be restored into a lake. @BECCUPDATES @GBAChiefComm @GBA_office @CMofKarnataka f) We demand that the GBA Forest Cell take action against the perpetrators / custodian of the land, who have cut many trees along the periphery of the entire Sy 54, without tree-felling permission. @aranya_kfd #TREEFELLING #Encroachment #Lake #SavePattandurAgraharaLake #SaveLakes #SaveNature #NatureInTheCity #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #Liveability #SaveBengaluru #SaveWhitefield #BrandBengaluru #Fraud #Robbery #UrbanCommons #UrbanRuin @PattandurLake @NammaWhitefield @blrtownhall @civicbangalore @CAFBengaluru @bengalurupost1 @BengaluruAgenda @east_bengaluru @WF_Watcher @BangaloreRepair @namma_BTM @CivicOp_india

1/n | FRESH ENCROACHMENT & TREE FELLING IN PATTANDUR AGRAHARA LAKE Sy 54 in WHITEFIELD? a) According to public bystanders, people claiming to be from Puravankara Group, and employees of CMG Security, belonging to serving minister KJ George, were caught them red-handed felling fully grown trees on a Govt Land, without permission. They were ordered to stop felling and investigation is in progress, according to DCF GBA. b) Lake land background: While the encroachment of 11 acres of the property is a matter sub-judice in an ongoing High Court case, this portion of around 2 acres (south east), is un-encroached land as per the Govt encroachment report - ie., it is undisputed Govt property. (Pls see pic of govt report sketch attached) c) Are these people trespassing and cutting trees in the Govt land? Real estate mafia #encroachment101? d) Further, in the disputed portions of Sy 54, a lot of tree felling has occurred along the periphery of the land parcel, without permission from Forest Dept, in the past few weeks. e) We demand that the BECC Commissioner and GBA Chief Commissioner, immediately take action to secure and protect this Govt lake land, which needs to be restored into a lake. @BECCUPDATES @GBAChiefComm @GBA_office @CMofKarnataka f) We demand that the GBA Forest Cell take action against the perpetrators / custodian of the land, who have cut many trees along the periphery of the entire Sy 54, without tree-felling permission. @aranya_kfd #TREEFELLING #Encroachment #Lake #SavePattandurAgraharaLake #SaveLakes #SaveNature #NatureInTheCity #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #Liveability #SaveBengaluru #SaveWhitefield #BrandBengaluru #Fraud #Robbery #UrbanCommons #UrbanRuin @PattandurLake @NammaWhitefield @blrtownhall @civicbangalore @CAFBengaluru @bengalurupost1 @BengaluruAgenda @east_bengaluru @WF_Watcher @BangaloreRepair @namma_BTM @CivicOp_india

24/n | Confirmed: #EmbassyGroup behind this #Ecocide? Machinations of encroachment exposed: Forest Lands that are leased to Concor by KIADB (which is itself illegal), are transferred illegally to Embassy Group? Is this permitted @CMofKarnataka @krishnabgowda? deccanherald.com/india/karna… Gross mishandling of Case by the Govt? * KIADB acquired FOREST LANDS, VIOLATING the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980. Why was this permitted? Lawlessness at the Top??? Case of fence eating the crop? * FAULTY COURT ORDER? Forest Dept's writ in HC was dismissed due to incompetent representation, but the Govt has not sought to quash the HC order? WHEN WILL THE GOVT APPOINT A COMPETENT LEGAL COUNSEL TO REPRESENT THIS ISSUE AND RECOVER THE ENTIRE 711 ACRES OF RESERVE FOREST? WHEN WILL THE GOVT RECOVER, RESTORE THE ENTIRE 711 ACRES RESERVED FOREST, AND PROTECT IT? @CMofKarnataka @krishnabgowda @aranya_kfd @eshwar_khandre @byadavbjp @moefcc?? #TheBiggestForestScam #SaveKadugodiForest #SaveBengaluru #LungSpace #LungsOfBengaluru #SCAM #DaylightRobbery #SaveForests #ClimateChange #EcoDisaster #BiodiversityMatters #ForestDestruction #EnvironmentalOutrage #SaveNature #BengaluruNews #ReclaimTheForest #GreenMahadevapura #GreenBengaluru #BreatheEasy #CitizenAction #RegreenBengaluru #BrandBengaluru #RuinedCity #Lawlessness #Corruption #UnplannedDevelopment #UrbanRuin #ShadyBusiness #LandGrab #EmbassyGroup #RealEstateMafia #Fraud #Encroachment #ForestEncroachment @CMofKarnataka @siddaramaiah @PMOIndia @rashtrapatibhvn @ClimateFrontIND @Jhatkaadotorg @narendramodi @NITIAayog @Greenpeace @UNEP @UNFCCC @down2earthindia @CSEINDIA @SDG2030 @UN_SDG @4Post2020BD @conserve_ind @MongabayIndia @TrustBangalore @esgindia1 @LetMeBreathe_In @NoTreesNoWater @LetIndBreathe @c40cities @GreenTweetArmy @bengalurupost1 @BengaluruAgenda @east_bengaluru @WF_Watcher @BangaloreRepair @Nammawhitefield @wfrising @greentweetarmy @civicbangalore @CAFBengaluru @namma_BTM @NammaWhitefield @WFRising @CivicOp_india @DeccanHerald

22/n | The cat's out of the bag? Is the perpetrator of this #Ecocide, the Embassy Group? There are no boards at location at the reserved forest land where Site Hoardings have been set up, and deforestation and earthworks are being carried out; but the security guards claim they work for the Embassy Group. Is this another Joy Ice cream factory type of Scam in the making? This time, in a reserved forest? How did the Embassy group which is a real estate developer get hold of a Reserved Forest Land, that was in any case illegally leased out to some industry? Can a land that is leased by KIADB to industries be resold to Real Estate Companies like Embassy? What kind of scam is brewing here? @eshwar_khandre @aranya_kfd @krishnabgowda @SEOC_Karnataka How can this forest land change hands? Please investigate and punish the perpetrators. Is there no end to the greed and lawlessness by real estate mafia? And what are the stewards of our forests doing? Is there no end to the dereliction of duty and corruption by our bureaucrats and Govt? @byadavbjp @moefcc?? @PMOIndia @PMOIndia_RC #TheBiggestForestScam #SaveKadugodiForest #SaveBengaluru #LungSpace #LungsOfBengaluru #SCAM #DaylightRobbery #SaveForests #ClimateChange #EcoDisaster #BiodiversityMatters #ForestDestruction #EnvironmentalOutrage #SaveNature #BengaluruNews #ReclaimTheForest #GreenMahadevapura #GreenBengaluru #BreatheEasy #CitizenAction #RegreenBengaluru #BrandBengaluru #RuinedCity #Lawlessness #Corruption #UnplannedDevelopment #UrbanRuin #ShadyBusiness #LandGrab #EmbassyGroup #RealEstateMafia #Fraud #Encroachment #ForestEncroachment @CMofKarnataka @siddaramaiah @PMOIndia @rashtrapatibhvn @ClimateFrontIND @Jhatkaadotorg @narendramodi @NITIAayog @Greenpeace @UNEP @UNFCCC @down2earthindia @CSEINDIA @SDG2030 @UN_SDG @4Post2020BD @conserve_ind @MongabayIndia @TrustBangalore @esgindia1 @LetMeBreathe_In @NoTreesNoWater @LetIndBreathe @c40cities @GreenTweetArmy @bengalurupost1 @BengaluruAgenda @east_bengaluru @WF_Watcher @BangaloreRepair @Nammawhitefield @wfrising @greentweetarmy @civicbangalore @CAFBengaluru @namma_BTM @NammaWhitefield @WFRising @CivicOp_india

20/n | JCB IN ACTION INSIDE RESERVE FOREST! What used to be a forest 'a few months ago', is now this.... This entire area is undeveloped, and was heavily forested. Why did the Forest Dept sit idle, while it was being ruined? It is situated right next to the Forest Nursery! On paper, this entire area is a Reserve Forest! Are we now in a state where we cannot even protect 'Documented' Reserve Forests? @byadavbjp @moefcc Will you please penalise the perpetrators of this horrible #ECOCIDE? @eshwar_khandre @aranya_kfd #SaveKadugodiForest #TheBiggestForestScam #SCAM #DaylightRobbery #SaveForests #ClimateChange #EcoDisaster #BiodiversityMatters #ForestDestruction #EnvironmentalOutrage #SaveNature #BengaluruNews #ReclaimTheForest #GreenMahadevapura #GreenBengaluru #BreatheEasy #CitizenAction #RegreenBengaluru #BrandBengaluru #RuinedCity #Lawlessness #Corruption #UnplannedDevelopment #UrbanRuin #ShadyBusiness #LandGrab @CMofKarnataka @siddaramaiah @PMOIndia @rashtrapatibhvn @ClimateFrontIND @Jhatkaadotorg @narendramodi @NITIAayog @Greenpeace @UNEP @UNFCCC @down2earthindia @CSEINDIA @SDG2030 @UN_SDG @4Post2020BD @atree_org @conserve_ind @MongabayIndia @TrustBangalore @esgindia1 @LetMeBreathe_In @NoTreesNoWater @LetIndBreathe @c40cities @GreenTweetArmy @Namma_Bengaluru @bengalurupost1 @BengaluruAgenda @east_bengaluru @WF_Watcher @BangaloreRepair @Nammawhitefield @wfrising @Indian_Rivers @indiawater @AikyamCommunity @greentweetarmy @civicbangalore @CAFBengaluru @BAFBLR @namma_BTM @NammaWhitefield @WFRising @pgpreeti92 @gba_bcac

18/n Going, going gone! The story of Kadugodi Forest! An entire forest is being wiped out by real estate mafia in front of our eyes! In May last year, the forest minister @eshwar_khandre announced that the undeveloped parts of Kadugodi Reserve Forest will be recovered and restored. However, in December 2025, a massacre of trees ensued, and nearly 50 acres were deforested in just one month. This 100 acre stretch of the Kadugodi Reserve Forest (of total 711 Acres) is located right next to ITPL Pattandur Agrahara Metro Station, and passers by on metro can see the destruction occurring everyday. JCBs are working everyday to remove trees, and they have also started excavation and earthwork. Sources inform us that major land mafia elements and a serving minister are involved, and commercial development is on the cards. Question: How can forest lands illegally occupied by KIADB and leased to industries, be now resold to real estate companies? WHAT IS THIS SCAM? @eshwar_khandre @aranya_kfd @moefcc @byadavbjp @PMOIndia @rashtrapatibhvn @ClimateFrontIND @Jhatkaadotorg @narendramodi @NITIAayog @Greenpeace @UNEP @UNFCCC @down2earthindia @CSEINDIA @SDG2030 @UN_SDG @4Post2020BD @atree_org @conserve_ind @MongabayIndia @sustainBLR @TrustBangalore @esgindia1 @LetMeBreathe_In @NoTreesNoWater @LetIndBreathe @c40cities @GreenTweetArmy @Namma_Bengaluru @bengalurupost1 @BengaluruAgenda @east_bengaluru @WF_Watcher @BangaloreRepair @Nammawhitefield @wfrising @Indian_Rivers @indiawater @AikyamCommunity @greentweetarmy @civicbangalore @CAFBengaluru @BAFBLR @namma_BTM @NammaWhitefield @WFRising @pgpreeti92 @gba_bcac #TheBiggestForestScam #SCAM #DaylightRobbery #SaveKadugodiForest #SaveForests #ClimateChange #EcoDisaster #BiodiversityMatters #ForestDestruction #EnvironmentalOutrage #SaveNature #BengaluruNews #ReclaimTheForest #GreenMahadevapura #GreenBengaluru #BreatheEasy #CitizenAction #RegreenBengaluru #BrandBengaluru #RuinedCity #Lawlessness #Corruption #UnplannedDevelopment #UrbanRuin #ShadyBusiness #LandGrab

17/n Kadugodi forests under fresh attack by real estate mafia Area A: Right next to ITPL Metro Stn Locn Pin: maps.app.goo.gl/UTsq3tokP3AQ… : Fencing & Earth works reported in past weeks. @eshwar_khandre Pls protect surviving dense forest in this area? @CMofKarnataka @aranya_kfd

11/n 🚨 Forest Mismanagement in India’s IT Capital! 🚨 Here's the ground reality from #Kadugodi Forest (Total: 711 Acres): 🌲 526 Acres encroached by KIADB 🌲 65 Acres with Forest Dept 🌲 120 Acres under reclamation & replantation Still a long way to go @eshwar_khandre @aranya_kfd — but we acknowledge the first step. ⚠️ Alarming: Fresh illegal deforestation on 30 Acres near Good Shed Railway Station! @eshwar_khandre Will you act swiftly and punish the guilty? Time to show Karnataka means business on forest crimes! #Ecocide #SaveKadugodiForest #ForestJustice #Bengaluru #Bangalore #BrandBengaluru #DaylightRobbery #TreeMassacre #ForestEncroachment #SaveForests #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #UrbanRuin @byadavbjp @moefcc @ClimateFrontIND @Jhatkaadotorg @PMOIndia @rashtrapatibhvn @narendramodi @NITIAayog @Greenpeace @UNEP @UNFCCC @down2earthindia @CSEINDIA @SDG2030 @UN_SDG @4Post2020BD @atree_org @conserve_ind @MongabayIndia @sustainBLR @TrustBangalore @esgindia1 @LetMeBreathe_In @NoTreesNoWater @LetIndBreathe @CSEINDIA @c40cities @GreenTweetArmy @Namma_Bengaluru @bengalurupost1 @BengaluruAgenda @east_bengaluru @WF_Watcher @BangaloreRepair @Nammawhitefield @wfrising

9/n Challenges ahead: There are these huge constructions that have come up recently, located inside the Kadugodi Forest area. One of them is the Titanium Tech Park. Rumours are that @Airbus has leased space within this tech park. We appeal to @airbus to display social responsibility by refusing to be located inside an encroached forest area! #SaveKadugodiForest #SaveForests #ClimateCrisis #Climatechange @UNFCCC @UNEP @EU_Commission

1/n The BIGGEST FOREST SCAM in India is unfolding in the Silicon Valley - Bengaluru, right opposite ITPL, in Whitefield (where else?)… STATE MINISTERS ARE INVOLVED? Not surprising? 711 Acres Kadugodi Forest in Bengaluru - THE LARGEST URBAN FOREST SCAM? Hyderabad's Kancha Gachibowli Forest scam (400 acres) pales in comparison...? #SaveKadugodiForest @eshwar_khandre @aranya_kfd are you asleep? History: On May 29, 1896, an extent of 711 acres of land in Kadugodi that belonged to the Kingdom of Mysore, along with the boundary description was notified as government plantation, which according to the law back then was demarcated the area as state forest land. (Rule 9 of Rules 1878 for the Administration of the Forests and Wastelands in the territories of the Maharaja of Mysore). In a notification dated January 7, 1901, the area was declared as state forest under the Mysore Forests Regulations Act (1900) and was later deemed as reserved forest in 1963. THE SCAM: The #KIADB, the shady SCAM machine of the Karnataka Govt, is the usual suspect!! The Land Mafia in Karnataka, especially crooked Ministers utilise the shady bureaucrats of KIADB for their dirty schemes. This is how : * The Karnataka government’s Commerce and Industries Department acquired 305 acres and 23 guntas, "without noticing the nature of the land" in 1985 & 1987, under the provisions of the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Act to develop the Kadugodi Industrial Area! What kind of officials do not notice the nature of a forest land? Even if they are retired, they need to be brought back and prosecuted! * Another 141 acres was handed over to the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) by the Mysore reserve Police in 1972. * Rumour has it that of 711 acres of Forest land, only 60 acres are left as forest. Kadugodi tree park is 22 acres and the Forest Dept opposite ITPL is some 37 acres.😢 ATTEMPTS BY FOREST DEPT TO RESTORE FOREST STIFLED: * In 2006, the joint Legislature committee set up to look into the encroachment of government land, headed by A T Ramaswamy, had surveyed this area and reported that Kadugodi Plantation Reserve Forest had been encroached upon by the Railways, KIADB, police department, animal husbandry department etc. * The original document of this property goes back to the notification of June 2, 1896 published in Mysore Gazette, described as Kadugodi Plantation in survey number 1 to the extent of 711 acres. * Digging into the old records, assistant commissioner, Bengaluru North, N Mahesh Babu, traced out the 1896 copy of the notification and put in place the layers of records, to finally prove that the land belongs to government and is a s a forest land. * Subsequently, RTC was entered into the Revenue Dept records, establishing 711 Acres as a forest land, in 2015! Subsequently, the Karnataka Forest Dept @aranya_kfd initiated process to recover the entire Forest land, however, it was blocked by vested interests.. There is a rumour that one of the affected beneficiaries of the encroachment challenged the recovery of forest land by the Forest Dept in the Supreme Court, and due to poor representation by the State Govt, the Supreme Court is supposed to have issued a stay or order against the recovery? This needs to be thoroughly investigated. How can the Govt be so careless about such an important matter? Just the way the Govt employs the most expensive lawyers to protect its derelict officials, or real estate interests, or to withhold elections to BBMP, cant it employ the best legal resources to save a forest? Bengaluru desperately needs this lung space! Whitefield in particular has become a concrete slum, with the lowest liveability parameters. If there is anything most precious to this area, it is a green lung space! THIS FOREST SHOULD BE RESTORED AND REVIVED, ALL CONCRETISATION SHOULD BE REMOVED. DEFORESTERS SHOULD BE PUNISHED! The million dollar question is... will Bengaluru come together to fight for the Kadugodi Forest as Hyderabad did to fight for Kancha Gachibowli? We have a long tradition of fighting for small causes and missing the big ones... EG: We fought for the 800 odd trees with #SteelFlyoverBeda campaign... But we sat around twiddling our thumbs when 7,500 trees were being cut for the KRDCL Surrounding Roads Project.... Right now, we are fighting to save around 400 trees next to Cantonment Railway station, but will be be mute spectators to the destruction of our largest 700 acres forest by commercial interests and an apathetic Govt? FRESH HOPE? On 15th May 2025, the Supreme Court passed a landmark order directing all States & UTs To Handover Possession Of ‘Forest Lands’ To Forest Department Does the recent judgement bode for Kadugodi Forest? Will it be recovered fully and entrusted to Forest Dept? Click on link below to see order: verdictum.in/amp/court-updat… @eshwar_khandre @aranya_kfd @moefcc @byadavbjp @PMOIndia @rashtrapatibhvn ---------------------------------- IMAGES: *The first image shows the spread of the forest in records, most of which has been encroached by Govt agencies, primarily KIADB, and sub let to other industries, most of which are defunct. It is a LAND GRAB SCAM OF MASSIVE PROPORTIONS! * The second image is a screenshot from google maps showing recent deforestation next to the Good Shed Terminal. * The third image shows a post by a real estate portal involving this forest land * The fourth image shows the RTC on Revenue Dept portal that shows the 711 acres as forest land SOURCES: bangaloremirror.indiatimes.c… thenewsminute.com/karnataka/… ------------------------- @PMOIndia @byadavbjp @moefcc @NITIAayog @UNFCCC @down2earthindia @CSEINDIA @SDG2030 @UN_SDG @4Post2020BD @atree_org @conserve_ind @MongabayIndia @Indian_Rivers @indiawater @sustainBLR @TrustBangalore @esgindia1 @LetMeBreathe_In @NoTreesNoWater @LetIndBreathe @AikyamCommunity @c40cities @greentweetarmy @civicbangalore @CAFBengaluru @Namma_Bengaluru @bengalurupost1 @BengaluruAgenda @east_bengaluru @BAFBLR @WF_Watcher @BangaloreRepair @namma_BTM @NammaWhitefield @WFRising @bbmpcac @pgpreeti92 #BrandBengaluru #RuinedCity #Lawlessness #Corruption #UnplannedDevelopment #UrbanRuin #ITSlum #SiliconSewer #SaveForests #ClimateChange