{"id":232841,"date":"2024-01-21T01:20:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=232841"},"modified":"2024-01-21T01:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T19:50:16","slug":"38-surrender-airguns-in-tezu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/38-surrender-airguns-in-tezu\/","title":{"rendered":"38 surrender airguns in Tezu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TEZU, 20 Jan:<\/strong> Thirty-eight individuals, including one female, surrendered their airguns during an Airgun Surrender Abhiyan programme organised here in Lohit district by the Lohit and the Anjaw forest divisions on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Environment &amp; Forest Minister Mama Natung, who along with Tezu-Sunpura MLA Karikho Kri attended the programme, highlighted how the Airgun Surrender Abhiyan started in 2021 from East Kameng district. Stressing on biodiversity conservation, he lamented that rampant hunting<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">and killing of birds and wild animals are causing the species to vanish rapidly. &#8220;Therefore, such initiative is the need of the hour,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lohit DC Shashvat Saurabh said that &#8220;this initiative not just benefits the wildlife and ecology but also the entire economy that is dependent on it,&#8221; while Kri said that the initiative would &#8220;help in protecting the ecological balance and spread awareness among the masses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conservator of Forests AT Damodar, Tezu ZPM Balong Tindya, and Divisional Forest Officer Tobang Pertin also spoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, APMDTCL Chairman Mohesh Chai, Sunpura ZPM Ashem Chaitom, GBs, students, and members of NGOs attended the event. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEZU, 20 Jan: Thirty-eight individuals, including one female, surrendered their airguns during an Airgun Surrender Abhiyan programme organised here in Lohit district by the Lohit and the Anjaw forest divisions on Saturday. Environment &amp; Forest Minister Mama Natung, who along with Tezu-Sunpura MLA Karikho Kri attended the programme, highlighted how the Airgun Surrender Abhiyan started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232841","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=232841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}