MUMBAI: Following several PILs filed in the Bombay high court, the state revenue department has declared 1,806 hectares of privately owned mangroves in the city as forests. The notification was issued by divisional commissioner S S Sandhu on February 24.

"With this move preservation of mangroves can be carried out like a forest. Simply put, such areas cannot be developed,'' Sandhu said.

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday came to the rescue of mangroves in the city. A division bench of Justice J N Patel and Justice Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani passed a series of orders to protect mangrove plots in Charkop and Andheri.

Mumbai: Construction of a retaining wall along the Vakola nallah by Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) has enraged activists.

Activists opine that the wall will destroy the mangroves next to the nallah, which is in direct violation of the Bombay High Court order of 2005, ensuring protection of mangroves in Maharashtra.

MANGROVES NOT BIOSHIELDS: Coastal forests such as mangroves cannot protect communities from tsunamis, claims a new study to be published by the United Nations Environment Programme. Researchers from ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University, Australia, analyzed the pattern of damage that occurred during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and said there was no

KOLKATA - Rising sea levels are causing salt water to flow into India's biggest river, threatening its ecosystem and turning vast farmlands barren in the country's east, a climate change expert warned Monday.

Mumbai: Dotted with estuaries, marshlands and rivers and surrounded on three sides by the Arabian Sea, Mumbai, with its own coral reef, is truly a city of wetlands. But they are disappearing fast, losing out to development.

Be careful. This mangrove forest has a fatal attraction,

By Jamal Shahid

ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: Although mangroves have been declared protected forest and there is a ban on commercial harvesting, their areas in Pakistan were shrinking fast due to various biotic (living organisms) and abiotic (environmental degradation) reasons, the National Assembly was informed on Wednesday.

Sandeep AsharSaturday, January 17, 2009 2:33 IST Email

Mumbai: Mangroves were given the status of notified forests last year but this has not prevented their destruction. Among the few remaining patches of green that remain in the western suburbs, the mangrove cover between Gorai creek and Kanderpada, faces a new threat.