A plot on Vihar Lake
ByYogesh NaikYogesh Naik / Updated: Mar 14, 2021, 06:00 IST
SGNP director seeks explanation from
BMC which claims it fenced the area for security reasons
The
Vihar Lake, which lies in the
Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), the only forest in the metropolis.
Vihar Lake is one of the seven
lakes that supply water to
Mumbai. It supplies 16 million gallons of water to the city, and was the second lake to have been constructed by the British in Mumbai.
A few days ago, when this correspondent was travelling in a helicopter, he saw a plot being carved out with small internal roads, and shot a video. The video was sent to the SGNP director G Mallikarjun who said that the matter would be investigated. Later, the video was also sent to the municipal commissioner I S Chahal, chief wildlife warden Nitin Kakodkar, additional principal chief conservator of
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At one point of time in 1990s, there were 2,000 vultures in
Raigad district alone but their number has now come down to 350.
The forest department and Mahad-based conservation
NGO Seescap (Society of Ecoendangered Species Conservation and Protection) will be undertaking the first-ever census of vultures in India.
At one point, Mumbai had many vultures, and most of them were restricted to
Sanjay Gandhi National Park and the
Tower of Silence, where the Parsis perform the last rites of their dead.
Over a period of time due to increasing urbanisation, the vultures left Mumbai. The decline in the population of vultures in Maharashtra and many other parts of the country has been blamed on the
Not the day of the Jackal
ByYogesh NaikYogesh Naik / Updated: Jan 10, 2021, 06:00 IST
The jackals try to look for food and come near human settlements.
Kanjurmarg dumping yard eats into the habitat of the depleting species found chiefly in the mangroves from Deonar to Thane.
The dumping yard at Kanjurmarg is proving to be a big hindrance to the survival of
golden jackals, which are chiefly found in the mangroves from Deonar to Thane – now rechristened as the
Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary.
Just as the leopards are the most important part of the
Sanjay Gandhi National Park habitat, the golden jackal is the chief mammal of the mangroves. But as their habitat contracts, their numbers are fast dwindling. When they venture into human settlements in search of food, many a time they are knocked down by passing vehicles.
Thane: Two-year-old leopard rescued from Yeoor range of Sanjay Gandhi National Park
ByShrutika SukhiShrutika Sukhi / Updated: Dec 17, 2020, 13:41 IST
Yeoor range of
SGNP) on Wednesday morning.
The forest department had received an alert on Tuesday afternoon stating that a leopard was near the restaurants at Yeoor and wasn t moving much. The forest department suspected it to be injured or unwell but when they reached the spot the big cat was nowhere to be seen. On Wednesday morning again, we received a call stating that the wild animal was back at the same spot. Two teams of six rescuers and 20 forest officials each, reached the spot,” said Rajendra Pawar range forest officer, Yeoor.