500 mangrove trees to be cut for infra projects

The Bombay high court on Thursday allowed state agencies to cut over 500 mangrove trees for infrastructure projects that were in the “public interest”, reports Swati Deshpande. The projects include an elevated corridor linking Airoli bridge to Thane-Belapur Road, a depot at Malwani for the Mumbai Metro 2A Dahisar-D N Nagar corridor and three bridges across Thane Creek for the proposed Navi Mumbai airport.

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