Environmentalists fighting to save the Aarey forest from the proposed Metro III car depot have done their homework and are all set to take it to the international funding agency, including various proofs and a mid-day report.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is funding the project and is allegedly yet to take note of activists' claims of the negative impact of the car depot - felling of over 2,200 trees - on the area's biodiversity. Hence, one of the activists is going to the JICA office in Tokyo to deliver photocopies of the proofs, including pictures, newspaper articles and letters. Cassendra Nazrath from the WWH Trust and the Aarey Conservation Group said, "JICA, which is funding Metro III by giving a loan to MMRCL, is very pro-environment. So we want to bring it to their notice: how the mega project is going to have a negative impact on the biodiversity of Aarey Milk Colony, one of the last surviving green lungs of Mumbai."