{"id":78622,"date":"2021-08-10T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=78622"},"modified":"2021-08-10T12:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:39:36","slug":"demarcation-margalla-hills-land-encroachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/demarcation-margalla-hills-land-encroachment.html","title":{"rendered":"Demarcation of Margalla Hills\u2019 forest land demanded to avoid encroachment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The residents and nature lovers have expressed their concern over the illegal occupation and encroachment of forest land in Islamabad\u2019s Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP), news sources reported. The citizens said the issue has emerged due to lack of administrative intervention and the absence of demarcation of the park\u2019s land.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sc-bars-stone-crushing-in-margalla-hills-national-park.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SC bars stone crushing in Margalla Hills National Park<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, residents and visitors of the area stated that, despite recent developments and measures by the cabinet and federal agencies to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/plan-in-the-making-to-preserve-native-vegetation-at-margalla-hills-national-park.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"70229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">preserve nature<\/a> by initiating an anti-encroachment drive against illegal structures built on green lands, no practical steps have been taken to preserve the forest land.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of the absence of demarcation of MNHP\u2019s land, the natives of the villages located inside the park have expanded and built illegal structures, causing clearing of jungle land and the chopping down of trees that take 20 to 30 years to grow to their maximum height.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/margalla-hills-hazardous-activity-ban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hazardous Activities Banned at Margalla Hills<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An official document revealed a similar situation. As per the document, certain parts of the Margalla Hills National Park had been unlawfully occupied near Jungle No. 1, Bhara Kahu, Mouza Manga, Salkhitar, 22 Mile, Chhatra, and Karlot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The residents and nature lovers have expressed their concern over the illegal occupation and encroachment of forest land in Islamabad\u2019s Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP), news sources reported. The citizens said the issue has emerged due to lack of administrative intervention and the absence of demarcation of the park\u2019s land.\u00a0 Read: SC bars stone crushing in Margalla Hills National Park Furthermore, residents and visitors of the area stated that, despite recent developments and measures by the cabinet and federal agencies to preserve nature by initiating an anti-encroachment drive against illegal structures built on green lands, no practical steps have been taken to preserve the forest land.\u00a0 Because of the absence of demarcation of MNHP\u2019s land, the natives of the villages located inside the park have expanded and built illegal structures, causing clearing of jungle land and the chopping down of trees that take 20 to 30 years to grow to their maximum height. Read: Hazardous Activities Banned at Margalla Hills An official document revealed a similar situation. As per the document, certain parts of the Margalla Hills National Park had been unlawfully occupied near Jungle No. 1, Bhara Kahu, Mouza Manga, Salkhitar, 22 Mile, Chhatra, and Karlot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015],"tags":[47400,29780],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"tag-demarcation-of-margalla-hills-forest-land-demanded-to-avoid-encroachment","9":"tag-margalla-hills-national-park","10":"cat-15015-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Margalla Hills\u2019 land demarcation needed to stop land grab- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The residents and nature lovers have expressed their concern over the illegal occupation and encroachment of forest land in Islamabad\u2019s\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/demarcation-margalla-hills-land-encroachment.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Margalla Hills\u2019 land demarcation needed to stop land grab- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The residents and nature lovers have expressed their concern over the illegal occupation and encroachment of forest land in Islamabad\u2019s\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/demarcation-margalla-hills-land-encroachment.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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