Karwar: India’s first canopy walk which was once inaugurated at Kuveshi woodland in Castle Rock division of the Western Ghats in Joida taluk on Sunday is the brainchild of 2 youths from Mysuru.
Abdul Anees and Bharat P G, who hail from Mysuru, have learned the dream of the people of this area via putting in place of the 240 metre-long canopy walk on top of the top rising bushes just 20km clear of the Goa border.
Speaking to TOI at Kuveshi, Anees and Bharat stated even though they had been engineers via occupation their hobby is adventurism.
“We visited this woodland in Dandeli area and likewise the Kali Tiger Reserve (KTR) a number of times. A hen pageant held at Kulagi close to Dandeli in 2016 helped us understand our dream to set up a cover walk within the Western Ghats,” they stated.
“During the hen pageant, minister R V Deshpande and then most important conservator of woodland Vinay Luthra proposed the cover walk in Keveshi woodland because it has tall and powerful bushes. Then Deshpande had urged that the 200-km-long Great Canara Trail, which is the dream mission of the tourism department of Karnataka, must finish with the walk at the canopies within the Kuveshi. We had been within the assembly and then approached the officials curious about the proposal. The response was once encouraging,” Anees stated. Till now handiest few international locations like Indonesia, Malaysia have canopy walks, he added.
“We have visited different international locations where canopy walk is popular and roped in some mavens from London to start out the Rs 82 lakh mission. We selected robust teak bushes and built the cover with the help of robust ropes at a height of 30 metres. There are 5 platforms on which 10 other folks can stand at a time,” they stated.
“Though the platform is robust, as a precautionary measure we now have made up our minds to permit handiest two other folks at a time on every of such suspension,” stated Bharat.
“In international international locations, the cover walk is being used by the researchers to review bushes, different birds and insects without aggravating them. In India it is now being used to expand tourism. We took two and part months to build the cover. Though the design is from different international locations we evolved it and now it has change into distinctive,” stated Anees.
“The canopy walk is past our expectations. We in reality thank Anees and Bharat for this marvelous canopy walk,” stated Phalakshyya, Conservator of Forest. Anees and Bharat had been honoured via R V Deshpande, Minister for medium and heavy industries at Kuveshi on Sunday all through the inauguration of the Canopy walk.
Abdul Anees and Bharat P G, who hail from Mysuru, have learned the dream of the people of this area via putting in place of the 240 metre-long canopy walk on top of the top rising bushes just 20km clear of the Goa border.
Speaking to TOI at Kuveshi, Anees and Bharat stated even though they had been engineers via occupation their hobby is adventurism.
“We visited this woodland in Dandeli area and likewise the Kali Tiger Reserve (KTR) a number of times. A hen pageant held at Kulagi close to Dandeli in 2016 helped us understand our dream to set up a cover walk within the Western Ghats,” they stated.
“During the hen pageant, minister R V Deshpande and then most important conservator of woodland Vinay Luthra proposed the cover walk in Keveshi woodland because it has tall and powerful bushes. Then Deshpande had urged that the 200-km-long Great Canara Trail, which is the dream mission of the tourism department of Karnataka, must finish with the walk at the canopies within the Kuveshi. We had been within the assembly and then approached the officials curious about the proposal. The response was once encouraging,” Anees stated. Till now handiest few international locations like Indonesia, Malaysia have canopy walks, he added.
“We have visited different international locations where canopy walk is popular and roped in some mavens from London to start out the Rs 82 lakh mission. We selected robust teak bushes and built the cover with the help of robust ropes at a height of 30 metres. There are 5 platforms on which 10 other folks can stand at a time,” they stated.
“Though the platform is robust, as a precautionary measure we now have made up our minds to permit handiest two other folks at a time on every of such suspension,” stated Bharat.
“In international international locations, the cover walk is being used by the researchers to review bushes, different birds and insects without aggravating them. In India it is now being used to expand tourism. We took two and part months to build the cover. Though the design is from different international locations we evolved it and now it has change into distinctive,” stated Anees.
“The canopy walk is past our expectations. We in reality thank Anees and Bharat for this marvelous canopy walk,” stated Phalakshyya, Conservator of Forest. Anees and Bharat had been honoured via R V Deshpande, Minister for medium and heavy industries at Kuveshi on Sunday all through the inauguration of the Canopy walk.
This passionate Mysuru duo built canopy walk
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