Around 1,471 hectares of mangroves on government land in Navi Mumbai have been notified as “reserved forests”.

The Maharashtra Forest Department (MFD) is working on a proposal to notify up to 7 to 8 kilometres of mangrove forests and adjoining mudflats along the western part of the Thane creek as a ‘wildlif

More than a month after the oil leak from a pipeline owned by Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) polluted the Mahul creek and destroyed mangroves with a furnace oil slick, the Maharashtra Pollution Control B