India, July 21 -- After the BMC recently announced to go up to 30 meters deep into the mangroves at Charkop for the Verova Bhayandar Sea Link project, environmentalist and a resident of Charkop, Mili Shetty, will be writing to the BMC raising a call to protect the birds that have their nests on the mangroves, requesting to relocate the birds before commencing the construction work.

According to the BMC, the project will permanently impact approximately 9,000 mangrove trees, with an additional 36,000 trees temporarily affected during construction.

Shetty claims that cuckoos, kingfishers, and the black winged kite are among the 150 species of birds that visit the 136 hectares of mangroves at Charkop and that the rare bittern bird too was ...