In a major victory for the environmentalists’ campaign to save the 30-acre DPS Flamingo Lake, the Maharashtra Government has decided to conserve the waterbody at Nerul in Navi Mumbai, which has recently witnessed the deaths of many pink birds. A Government Resolution (GR) has been issued to this effect by the Revenue and Forest Department.

The government has appointed a high-level committee headed by the principal secretary of the Forest Department to study the way it means to conserve the lake as a natural flamingo abode. Principal secretaries of Environment and Urban Development departments, CIDCO managing director, Navi Mumbai municipal commissioner, CEO of Maharashtra Maritime Board, Thane district collector, and Bombay Natural History Society Chairman Pravin Pardesi are members of the committee. The additional principal chief conservator of forest (Mangrove Cell) is the member secretary.