{"id":510729,"date":"2022-08-01T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=510729"},"modified":"2022-08-01T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T06:37:46","slug":"metro-car-shed-in-aarey-threatens-not-just-leopards-but-wide-range-of-animals-warn-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/metro-car-shed-in-aarey-threatens-not-just-leopards-but-wide-range-of-animals-warn-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro car shed in Aarey threatens not just leopards, but wide range of animals, warn activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Maharashtra government is moving forward with the Mumbai Metro-3 car shed project in Aarey Colony, a forest area in the city, environmentalists warn that not only leopards, but a host of other animals and birds face the threat of losing their habitat and lives. Apart from leopards, a wide range of species of flora and fauna is found in the Aarey forest, an 1,800 acre area termed as the city&#8217;s &#8216;green lung&#8217;, located in suburban Goregaon and adjacent to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). <\/p>\n<p>This rich urban forest is a biotope that houses some newly-discovered species of scorpions and spiders, besides being a treasure trove of birds, butterflies, amphibians and mammals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Maharashtra government is moving forward with the Mumbai Metro-3 car shed project in Aarey Colony, a forest area in the city, environmentalists warn that not only leopards, but a host of other animals and birds face the threat of losing their habitat and lives. Apart from leopards, a wide range of species of flora and fauna is found in the Aarey forest, an 1,800 acre area termed as the city&#8217;s &#8216;green lung&#8217;, located in suburban Goregaon and adjacent to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). This rich urban forest is a biotope that houses some newly-discovered species of [&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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510729","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=510729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}