Filmmaker Sekhar Kammula is trying to raise awareness against the deleterious effects of mining activities in the pristine Nallamalla forest area.

"The uranium mining in the Nallamalla forest will seriously affect the ecosystem in Andhra and Telangana. We will lose three lakh acres of forest land and its wildlife habitat. It will destroy the second largest tiger reserve in India. The Chenchus, the most primitive tribal group living in the forest, will go extinct," the 'Fidaa' director today said.

He added, "It would deplete springs and rivulets, contaminate the Krishna river with truly frightening implications. The Radon emission resulting from the mining has been proven to be cancer-causing. It would be catastrophic to go on with the mining. The government should save the Nallamalla, the Chenchus and the Krishna."

Kammula's next is with Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi. It will be shot from the first week of September.