{"id":137678,"date":"2020-09-23T03:54:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T22:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=137678"},"modified":"2020-09-23T03:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T22:24:17","slug":"students-resolve-to-fight-against-illegal-timber-trade-in-e-siang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/23\/students-resolve-to-fight-against-illegal-timber-trade-in-e-siang\/","title":{"rendered":"Students resolve to fight against illegal timber trade in E\/Siang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, Sep 22:<\/strong> Expressing serious concern over illegal timber trade in East Siang district, various student bodies, led by the Adi Students&#8217; Union (AdiSU), have urged the authority to take steps to stop the illicit business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that &#8220;indiscriminate cutting of trees and collection of forest wealth is causing environmental degradation in the region,&#8221; the AdiSU&#8217;s East Siang district unit president Kangir Jamoh appealed to the higher authorities of the forest department to pass orders to control illegal logging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jamoh informed that functionaries of the East Siang district units of the AdiSU, the Galo Students Union and the AATASU (Tai Ahom) assembled for a meeting here on Monday and &#8220;resolved to move against the illegal timber business in the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The student leaders also appealed to &#8220;elite society members&#8221; to join hands against illegal timber trade and destruction of forests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondent PASIGHAT, Sep 22: Expressing serious concern over illegal timber trade in East Siang district, various student bodies, led by the Adi Students&#8217; Union (AdiSU), have urged the authority to take steps to stop the illicit business. Stating that &#8220;indiscriminate cutting of trees and collection of forest wealth is causing environmental degradation in the region,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}