Nearly 70 percent of the mangrove has been reclaimed, NGOs said.
Neither the Housing Ministry nor the island council has contacted families about relocation plans.
The proposed construction of an airport in Kulhudhuffushi has caused controversy, but some locals welcome it because they see it as much needed development.
PPM supporters, heads of state-owned firms and senior government officials have been flocking to the northern island for the inauguration of an airport project and the...
The NGO EcoCare Maldives initiated the civil suit against the Ministry of Environment and Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Developing an airport on Kulhudhuffushi, the main population hub in the northern atolls, was a campaign pledge the president made in 2013. But a contractor has...
A timeline of events since the presidential pledge to build an airport on the northern population hub.
The Kulhudhuffushi council expects about 2,500 trees and plants to be cut down or removed from the island's unique mangrove forest for the construction of an...
Work began Saturday on a “bund wall” to mark a boundary for dredging and reclaiming the northern island's environmentally sensitive wetland area after fast-tracked environmental regulatory processes.
