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On their day, spare a thought for our vanishing wetlands [1]

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.

Publication Date: 
02/02/2009
Indian Express (Mumbai) [2]
Tags:
Wetlands [3], Mangroves [4], Wetland Conservation [5], Maharashtra [6], Mumbai [7]
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