Land reclamation project in Addu will cause irreparable damage to environment: NGOs

NGOs advocating for environment rights call to cancel Addu's land reclamation project as it would cause irreparable damage to the atoll's environment.

Referring to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) conducted to gauge the how the project would impact the environment, several organisations including Transparency Maldives are calling halt the massive land reclamation project. Aimed to solve the issue of unavailable land, the proposed project would reclaim 236.5 hectares of land in Addu.