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Human–Leopard Conflict and the Future of Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park

Each construction project justifies its ecological footprint as a ‘quick fix’ to ease congestion, with the hope of saving a fraction of the time travelled. This fosters a self-defeating cycle of growth, where the ‘build, and they will come’ simply invites more cars, ensuring traffic quickly returns to being just as bad or worse than…

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Supreme Court Approves Mangrove Cutting for Mumbai Coastal Road, Debi Goenka Disappointed

Debi Goenka, often termed ‘Mumbai’s mangrove man’, has expressed disappointment at the March 20 decision of the Supreme Court to allow Mumbai’s civic body to cut thousands of mangroves for a key road project in the north of the city. “I am disappointed by the approach of the High Court, Supreme Court and the petitioners…

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