Kulhudhuffushi airport project fast-tracked as election nears
Developing an airport on Kulhudhuffushi was a campaign pledge of President Abdulla Yameen.
28 Aug 2018, 9:00 AM
The government is scrambling to finish a controversial airport project in Haa Dhaal Kulhudhuffushi ahead of the presidential election, despite concerns that contractors are not protecting the island’s mangroves.
Developing an airport on Kulhudhuffushi, the main population hub in the northern atolls, was a campaign pledge of President Abdulla Yameen, despite access to an airport 25 minutes away on the island of Hanimadhoo.
There was an outcry over the destruction of the island’s mangroves and an Environment Impact Assessment report warned of lasting and irreversible damage from reclaiming the environmentally sensitive wetland area
Beleaf, a youth-led NGO from Kulhudhuffushi island, wrote to the island’s council expressing concern over the contractor’s disregard for reducing the environmental blows.
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