A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed they are investigating complaints popularized online that Gili Lankanfushi Resort has dug up a trench in a sandbank near K. Himmafushi, over which the resort allegedly had no rights. Residents of K. Himmafushi allegedly stopped digging of the sandbank by Gili Lankanfushi employees on the night of January […]
Environmental impact assessments have been approved for two airports without the reports being published or opened for comments, an NGO has claimed. Save Maldives raised concerns about the projects in Maafaru and Funadhoo on Sunday, saying the Environmental Protection Agency had yet to make its findings public. The EPA was unavailable for comment at the […]
It has been a busy winter for the Maldives Environment Minister Thoriq Ibrahim. Last Wednesday he concluded the One Planet Summit, which marked two years since the Paris Agreement. In November he attended the COP23 Summit. The Maldives is a poster child internationally for its vulnerability to climate change, but its globetrotting and grandstanding has […]