{"id":18777,"date":"2020-05-28T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/may\/28\/khonoma-indias-first-green-village-adapts-to-coronavirus-life-without-tourists-aoe"},"modified":"2020-05-28T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:30:27","slug":"indias-first-green-village-adapts-to-life-without-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18777","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s first &#8216;green&#8217; village adapts to life without tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khonoma\u2019s residents are sanguine about the Covid-19-enforced loss of visitor income \u2013 and it\u2019s all thanks to their sustainable lifestyle<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As he looks to the future, Kezhaseria Meyase, a 37-year-old resident of Khonoma, expresses confidence in the youth of the village. \u201cThey are well aware of the importance of conserving our forests and wildlife,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since the creation of the Khonoma Nature Conservation and Tragopan Sanctuary (KNCTS) in 1998, tourism in Khonoma has come to a halt. In 2019, the remote 700-year-old village in the Indian state of Nagaland, near the Indo-Myanmar border, received more than 4,000 visitors. Nearly a fifth of the tourists were from overseas, drawn to Khonoma\u2019s rich biodiversity and conservation success (in 2005, it was named<a href=\"https:\/\/ensia.com\/articles\/khonoma-indias-first-green-village-sustainable-agriculture\/\"> India\u2019s first \u201cgreen village\u201d<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/may\/28\/khonoma-indias-first-green-village-adapts-to-coronavirus-life-without-tourists-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khonoma\u2019s residents are sanguine about the Covid-19-enforced loss of visitor income \u2013 and it\u2019s all thanks to their sustainable lifestyleCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs he looks to the future, Kezhaseria Meyase, a 37-year-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[456,1216,65,59,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-conservation-and-indigenous-people","category-environment","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18778,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777\/revisions\/18778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}