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Mumbai's diverse bird habitats are facing a threat from rapid urbanisation


Mumbai’s diverse bird habitats are facing a threat from rapid urbanisation
Activists suggest wetlands be developed as tourist attractions and builders incentivised to protect avian biodiversity.
A black-winged stilt in a polluted creek next to Lokhandwala lake in Mumbai.
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Kartik Chandramouli/Mongabay.
Many popular and lesser-known bird habitats in Mumbai city are facing a threat from urban infrastructure work, while some have managed to survive despite the urban landscape closing in.
Naturalist and writer-photographer Sunjoy Monga estimates that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region has lost about 75% of habitat landscapes in just over a quarter of a century, with the most shocking and large scale devastation witnessed in just the past 7 years to 8 years in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. ....

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