Green Jhappi

• Environmentalists are protesting the building of a 22.7-km tunnel through Mount Takao as part of the Ken-O expressway
  
• Conceived 24 years ago, it involves building a 300 km circular motorway connecting Tokyo-Yokohama-Kisarazu
  
• Mount Takao, 30 km from Tokyo, is host to 1,321 plant, 5,000 insect and 150 bird species-55 per cent of Japan's native species
  
• Nearly 3 million hikers visit Mount Takao annually, making it more popular than Mount Fuji

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