{"id":384123,"date":"2020-11-13T11:32:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T06:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=384123"},"modified":"2020-11-13T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T07:40:44","slug":"bmc-commences-coral-translocation-at-haji-ali-and-worli-for-mumbai-coastal-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bmc-commences-coral-translocation-at-haji-ali-and-worli-for-mumbai-coastal-road-project\/","title":{"rendered":"BMC commences coral translocation at Haji Ali and Worli for Mumbai coastal road project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) began the process of shifting corals along the coastal road project route on Thursday, and it will take seven days to complete the process.<\/p>\n<p>The state mangrove cell, which is monitoring the translocation, explained how the process will be carried out by the Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO).<\/p>\n<p>Protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972, corals are marine species sporadically spread across rocky intertidal regions along the Mumbai coast. BMC plans to shift two species of corals \u2013 18 colonies across almost three feet at Worli, and another species across 1.1 foot at Haji Ali. BMC received WPA clearance from the Centre and forest department in October for the translocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) began the process of shifting corals along the coastal road project route on Thursday, and it will take seven days to complete the process. The state mangrove cell, which is monitoring the translocation, explained how the process will be carried out by the Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO). Protected under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA), 1972, corals are marine species sporadically spread across rocky intertidal regions along the Mumbai coast. BMC plans to shift two species of corals \u2013 18 colonies across almost three feet at Worli, and another species across [&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":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384123","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=384123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}