{"id":646156,"date":"2025-09-13T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T03:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646156"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:42:49","slug":"centre-to-review-karnataka-hydel-project-nod-over-threat-to-rare-macaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/centre-to-review-karnataka-hydel-project-nod-over-threat-to-rare-macaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre to review Karnataka hydel project nod over threat to rare macaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has decided to reconsider the in-principle approval granted to the Sharavathi Pumped Storage Project in Karnataka following serious ecological concerns over its potential impact on the Sharavathi Valley Lion-tailed Macaque Sanctuary in the Western Ghats. <\/p>\n<p>The project, proposed by Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd., aims to build a 2,000 MW pumped hydroelectric system in the Western Ghats, requiring 105.05 acres of dense forestland. Environmentalists warn that the sanctuary, home to about 700 lion-tailed macaques, one of the world\u2019s rarest primates, would be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has decided to reconsider the in-principle approval granted to the Sharavathi Pumped Storage Project in Karnataka following serious ecological concerns over its potential impact on the Sharavathi Valley Lion-tailed Macaque Sanctuary in the Western Ghats. The project, proposed by Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd., aims to build a 2,000 MW pumped hydroelectric system in the Western Ghats, requiring 105.05 acres of dense forestland. Environmentalists warn that the sanctuary, home to about 700 lion-tailed macaques, one of the world\u2019s rarest primates, would be affected.<\/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":[130,247,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646156","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=646156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}