The forest department and the Mahad-based conservation NGO Seescap (Society of Eco-endangered Species Conservation and Protection) had in March undertaken the f
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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