{"id":571052,"date":"2023-04-21T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=571052"},"modified":"2023-04-21T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T05:54:51","slug":"olive-ridleys-under-threat-with-kasarkod-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/olive-ridleys-under-threat-with-kasarkod-road-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Olive ridleys under threat with Kasarkod road project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state government is pushing for a project to build a four-lane road on Kasarakod beach in Honnavar to connect the local port by promising mitigation measures to protect olive ridley turtles that nest on the beach in large numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The move, which has been fiercely opposed by fishermen, has also got experts riled up, as they decried it as &#8220;ineffective and dangerous&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The Director of Ports and Member of Karnataka Maritime Board (KMB) has sent a revised proposal to the Karnataka State Coastal Zone Management Authority (KSCZMA) seeking approval for constructing a 2.58 km-long four-lane road with paved shoulder as well as a 5.5 metre-wide service road with 1.5-metre earthen shoulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state government is pushing for a project to build a four-lane road on Kasarakod beach in Honnavar to connect the local port by promising mitigation measures to protect olive ridley turtles that nest on the beach in large numbers. The move, which has been fiercely opposed by fishermen, has also got experts riled up, as they decried it as &#8220;ineffective and dangerous&#8221;. The Director of Ports and Member of Karnataka Maritime Board (KMB) has sent a revised proposal to the Karnataka State Coastal Zone Management Authority (KSCZMA) seeking approval for constructing a 2.58 km-long four-lane road with paved shoulder [&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":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571052","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=571052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}