This has to be the classic left-hand-right-hand dysfunction. On the one hand, the Maharashtra government took the significant step of declaring the Delhi Public School (DPS) wetland in the satellite township of Navi Mumbai as DPS Flamingo Conservation Reserve. This reflexively brings in the protection that the fragile ecology deserves, not only for the flamingos but also for the area that’s witnessing rapid concretisation. Navi Mumbai was conceptualised and built as a satellite city to Mumbai in the 1960s-70s but there was little said or done to preserve its natural ecology back then or in the decades later.

As the new international airport comes up in the area,........

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