Hours after this newspaper published a report on attempts to scare away birds from Panje wetland in Uran, the Mangrove Cell of the forest department asked the Raigad collector and local planner CIDCO on Wednesday to put an end to the nuisance.

In a letter to the authorities, member-secretary Neenu Somraj, who is also a deputy conservator of forest, said that the Panje wetland has ecological significance as it is a destination for several species of migratory birds. Somraj is also a member-secretary of the high court-appointed Wetland Grievance Redressal Committee.