Navi Mumbai: acting quickly in complaints about the occupants of Kharghar on the massive destruction of mangroves and wetland sites in the intertidal area in Navi Mumbai, state revenue officials have submitted FIR under the environmental protection law, 1986.
TOI also reported this problem, Especially how JCB is used to destroy marine plants while Bunds are made around wetlands to carry out shrimp / shrimp farming.
Revenue Circle Officer Pandurang Kachre said in his First filing in the Kharghar Police Station that the Forest Revenue and Official Team conducted an examination on Saturday after the Mangrove destruction media report near the Vastu Vihar housing community.
They also urge cell mangroves and collectorate branches to take ur’s steps.
The Natconnect Foundation and Shri Ekvira Aai Pratisstan had previously complained to the Minister of Chief against the destruction of mangrove forests and illegal shrimp farming ponds and CMOs asked the Ministry of Forestry to investigate further.
Simultaneously, Raigad Regency collector, Dr.
Mahendra Kalyankar asked SDO (sub-division officers) to see this problem.
Appreciate rapid action as a good start, Director of the Natconnect B Foundation said, “The police must take this case for his logical conclusion and track the culprit.
The vehicle used to level land can provide vital instructions.” Local green said that the investigation must also enter into the details of the destruction of mangroves and officials concerned must keep a close watch in the area where illegal activities occur.
Nandakumar Pawar, Head of Shri Ekvira Aai Prathanhtan shows that the river and mangrove are under CRZ-1 and no one has a business to fake the flow of free tidal water.
Organized shrimp ponds, organized and crab cultures that are cut into mangroves are acts of personal interests and not ordinary fishing communities, said pawar and calling go to the root cause of this threat.
“This kind of illegal activity brings a bad name to the fisherman community that is lawful and simple,” he said.
Mangroves not only function as breeding places for various fish and crabs but useful as carbon sinks, rainwater forests and host lots of birds, insects and animals.
Recently, gold wolves were noticed in Kharghar himself.
Activists Kharghar Nareshchandra Singh said that cutting mangroves must be a major threat to housing colonies.
“We have complained to the authorities for a long time and there is no action taken despite some inspections,” he said and thanked the media to highlight this problem now.
Destruction in Sector 17 and 25 are recent and sustainable events, Singh said and showed that the assessment of national wetland inventories (NWIA) clearly showed that criminals had spoken water from these areas and turned them into fish ponds, recently this.
Other activists Jyoti Nadkarni saluted the media and expressed hope that the environment will be protected now that preventive actions have begun in the sample collector.
Natconnect shows the Minister of Environment Aditya Thackeray who delayed discussing mangrove forests to the Ministry of Forestry for conservation as a backup forest encourage this kind of crime in areas that are sensitive to the environment.
“In Wetland Panje in Uran, Aaditya Thackeray previously ordered so as not to have construction in a bird-rich area.
However, however, the landfill occurred in Panje to make cricket soil, which was a serious problem,” Pointed Kumar.
” What is now notified has not been taken into account, said Kumar.
Green has appealed to the government to take its control even so-called private mangroves because the sea forest is a natural inheritance and must be protected to save coastal areas of tidal water attacks.
Mangroves also functions as a rainforest, Carbon sinks, breeding places for a variety of aquatic lives other than lifting hundreds of species of birds, butterflies, reptiles and animals.
For example, the Mangrove Society of India has reported that the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project will directly affect 177 species of population and migration , beaver, me Ra-turtle, fish, crabs, oysters, wild boar, monkeys, fish fishing, ferrets, civers and wild cats.