Environmental regulations amended to allow dredging for Kulhudhuffushi airport
10 Feb 2014, 7:14 PM
Zaheena Rasheed
The government of Maldives has amended environmental regulations to allow dredging in protected areas in order to facilitate the development of an airport in the protected mangrove site on Kulhudhuffushi island.
Speaking at a press conference today, Minister of Transport Ameen Ibrahim said the government would seek advice from environmental specialists to decide to dredge all or part of Kulhudhuffushi’s only remaining mangrove.
“We have to dredge the mangrove. We will determine whether it will be part or whole of the mangrove later,” he said.
Amendments to the regulations on dredging islands and lagoons will allow the government to dredge protected areas for development projects on the condition that an area with similar geographical characteristics is designated as protected.
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