{"id":33610,"date":"2020-11-16T05:07:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T05:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=33610"},"modified":"2020-11-16T05:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T05:07:59","slug":"protests-abound-as-uttarakhand-prepares-to-slash-10000-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/protests-abound-as-uttarakhand-prepares-to-slash-10000-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests Abound as Uttarakhand Prepares to Slash 10,000 Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As 28-year-old filmmaker, Varchasva Dhunta, steered his camera through a vast crowd cheering \u201cJungle jyaada jaroori hai\u201d (forest is more important), several demonstrators hugged the Thano forest trees along Dehradun\u2019s Jolly Grant Airport Road, enacting the famous \u201cChipko Aandolan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many even tied the Raksha Sutra \u2013 a sacred thread for ritualistic protection \u2013 around the wide girth of old trees, while hundreds of demonstrators reproached in the background \u201cPedh katna band karo\u201d (stop cutting the trees).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 20 voluntary organisations, community groups and commoners came out on Dehardun\u2019s street on 18 October and 8 November to register their protest against the axing of 10,000 trees of Thano Reserve Forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These protesters, numbering around 1200, were all residents of Dehradun, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Thano, Doiwala and other nearby towns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As 28-year-old filmmaker, Varchasva Dhunta, steered his camera through a vast crowd cheering \u201cJungle jyaada jaroori hai\u201d (forest is more important), several demonstrators hugged the Thano forest trees along Dehradun\u2019s Jolly Grant Airport Road, enacting the famous \u201cChipko Aandolan.\u201d Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Many even tied the Raksha Sutra \u2013 a sacred thread […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":33611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1329],"tags":[1189,70],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-33610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2020","tag-environment-current-affairs","tag-uttarakhand-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33612,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33610\/revisions\/33612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33610"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=33610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}