India, July 25 -- A 'mangrove coalition' has been set up to conserve mangroves in Mumbai and Chennai with the help of community engagement. The initiative is being spearheaded by the Godrej Enterprises Group, which brought together six think tanks and research institutes for this mission on Thursday.

Institutes such as the World Resource Institute-India; World Wide Fund for Nature-India, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Natural Capital Project at Stanford, and Conservation International will undertake research on ways to rejuvenate depleting mangroves.

"We are still in the preliminary stage; the actions are yet to be mapped. However, by using technologies such as satellite mapping, drones and geosp...