{"id":8214,"date":"2019-04-30T07:21:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/?p=8214"},"modified":"2021-02-13T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T13:46:02","slug":"ajjinanda-thamoo-poovaiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/ajjinanda-thamoo-poovaiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajjinanda Thamoo Poovaiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ajjinanda Thamoo Poovaiah from Kodagu is a wildlife protector, businessman, activist and conservationist and a eminent <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/?p=12978&amp;preview=true\">entrepreneur<\/a>&nbsp; Unable<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8216 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pg-27c-ajjinanda-thamoo-poovaiah-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pg-27c-ajjinanda-thamoo-poovaiah-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/pg-27c-ajjinanda-thamoo-poovaiah.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 141px) 100vw, 141px\" \/> to tolerate the devastation of tree felling in Kodagu district,Poovaiah put together a network of local residents to fight against the all-powerful timber mafia 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<h2>Achievements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He discovered that there was a nexus between criminals and some forest officials.<\/li>\n<li>Under the banner of the Kodagu Ekikrana Ranga, Poovaiah and his team worked tirelessly to bring the accused to justice.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;In 2003, when he saw the same scam being perpetrated in Nagarahole, he worked to expose a six crore timber racket around a World Bank project that was stripping the forest.<\/li>\n<li>Pooavaiah subsequently co-founded an organisation called \u2018Living Inspiration for Tribals\u2019 or LIFT, to enlist locals into conservation by finding them employment in the Forest Department and helping those who opted for voluntary relocation out of the Nagarahole Tiger Reserve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Awards<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He was honoured with \u201cwildlife service award\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Best Entrepreneur for Kodagu for supporting agricultural products by the Chief Minister-2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajjinanda Thamoo Poovaiah from Kodagu is a wildlife protector, businessman, activist and conservationist and a eminent entrepreneur&nbsp; Unable to tolerate the devastation of tree felling in Kodagu district,Poovaiah put together a network of local residents&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/ajjinanda-thamoo-poovaiah\/\" class=\"blink\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-people-kodava"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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