Thane: Celebrating the World Migratory Bird Day (WBMD) on May 14, a group of environment-focused groups have joined hands to hold the City’s first ever Flamingo Festival.
The 139-year-old nature research body founded by Dr Salim Ali has been studying the bird flight pattern in view of the upcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) as a project assigned by CIDCO
The World Wetlands Day on February 2 went unnoticed in Mumbai; seven islands that swallowed the sea and are still gobbling up creeks, mangroves, marshes, lakes, salt pan lands, rivers and even drains.
The Maharashtra government has decided to protect as reserve forest another 25 hectares of mangroves at Dharavi, considered to be Asia’s largest slum in Mumbai, even as environmentalists have been raising their voice against destruction of mangroves and land grab. A good beginning has been made now in accordance with the Bombay High Court order to protect the mangroves, but
As apprehended several times, the five ‘vanishing wetlands’ of Navi Mumbai have begun to show a telling impact on the migratory bird flight pattern and this could increase the bird-hit threats to the aircraft at the upcoming Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), a top BNHS scientist said quoting latest studies.