The Hindu Business Line : Saving the mangroves

We fully support the suggestions of the environmental NGO — Bombay Environmental Action Group — to the Bombay High Court in its petition on mangroves seeking directives declaring them areas of `protected forests', which will prohibit any development activity within a range of 50 meters of any mangrove.

Also appreciated are similar attempts to fence off mangrove tracts to avoid encroachments, and eviction of encroachers from mangrove land, re-plantation of destroyed mangroves, removal of artificial bunds and garbage dumps that choke the mangroves and the appointment of senior upright officers to monitor the implementation of the same.

G. R. Vora

Mumbai

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