{"id":381737,"date":"2020-11-02T11:17:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=381737"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T06:55:04","slug":"protest-against-proposed-felling-of-trees-for-dehradun-airport-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/protest-against-proposed-felling-of-trees-for-dehradun-airport-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest against proposed felling of trees for Dehradun airport project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental activists and local residents on Sunday protested outside Dehradun\u2019s Jolly Grant Airport on Sunday against the proposed cutting of more than 9,745 trees in Thano forest for expansion of the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) had recently asked the Uttarakhand government to consider another area for the expansion. \u201cOut of the 87.0185 ha proposed area to be diverted, 47 ha area falls under MDF (moderately dense forest)\u2026 (state government) may explore alternatives for the proposal such as acquiring area lying north of existing runway,\u201d read a letter by the MoEF\u2019s forest conservation division to the Uttarakhand Forest Department. \u201cThe entire proposed forest area for diversion falls within the Shivalik Elephant Reserve and elephant corridors within its 1 km radius.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental activists and local residents on Sunday protested outside Dehradun\u2019s Jolly Grant Airport on Sunday against the proposed cutting of more than 9,745 trees in Thano forest for expansion of the airport. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) had recently asked the Uttarakhand government to consider another area for the expansion. \u201cOut of the 87.0185 ha proposed area to be diverted, 47 ha area falls under MDF (moderately dense forest)\u2026 (state government) may explore alternatives for the proposal such as acquiring area lying north of existing runway,\u201d read a letter by the MoEF\u2019s forest conservation division to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381737","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=381737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}