{"id":11944,"date":"2009-05-14T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2009\/05\/14\/greenpeace-warns-of-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:51:52","slug":"greenpeace-warns-of-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/asia\/greenpeace-warns-of-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace warns of threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Orissa is home to both the Bhitarkanika National Park &#8211; the second largest mangrove ecosystem in India &#8211; and Gahirmatha, probably both the last and largest habitat of the Olive Ridley Sea turtle.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace says both will be damaged by the development of the large deepwater Dhamra port &#8211; a joint venture between Larsen &amp; Toubro (L&amp;T) and TATA Steel &#8211; in Orissa&#8217;s Bhadrakh district, and points out that the usual mass nesting patterns of the turtle &#8211; which involves a huge migration of turtles up the beach &#8211; have not been seen since the start of dredging operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A port development is about to threaten two sites of ecological significance in eastern India, environmentalist group Greenpeace has warned, despite their protected statuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11946,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11944\/revisions\/11946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11944"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}