{"id":376871,"date":"2020-10-05T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T06:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376871"},"modified":"2020-10-05T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T07:38:37","slug":"hydropower-proliferation-imperils-biodiversity-in-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/hydropower-proliferation-imperils-biodiversity-in-hp\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hydropower proliferation imperils biodiversity in HP\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hydropower proliferation in the name of \u2018clean energy\u2019 has severely impacted existing land-use, disturbed forest biodiversity and fragmented the forest landscape in the remote, ecologically vulnerable Kinnaur Division of Himachal Pradesh in the fragile Western Himalayas.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are part of the study titled \u201cMitigation or Myth? Impacts of Hydropower Development and Compensatory Afforestation on forest ecosystems in the high Himalayas\u201d. The study, conducted  between 2012 and 2016 and its findings appearing in the latest issue of \u2018Land Use Policy\u2019 journal, also found fault with the related compensatory afforestation plantations. <\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists Manshi Asher and Prakash Bhandari, associated with the Himdhara Environment Research and Action Collective, in their study said that they found that of the area of \u2018forest land\u2019 diverted to non-forest activities between 1980 and 2014, 90 per cent was transferred for hydro-electric projects (HEP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydropower proliferation in the name of \u2018clean energy\u2019 has severely impacted existing land-use, disturbed forest biodiversity and fragmented the forest landscape in the remote, ecologically vulnerable Kinnaur Division of Himachal Pradesh in the fragile Western Himalayas. The findings are part of the study titled \u201cMitigation or Myth? Impacts of Hydropower Development and Compensatory Afforestation on forest ecosystems in the high Himalayas\u201d. The study, conducted between 2012 and 2016 and its findings appearing in the latest issue of \u2018Land Use Policy\u2019 journal, also found fault with the related compensatory afforestation plantations. Environmentalists Manshi Asher and Prakash Bhandari, associated with the Himdhara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}