Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray may have tried to protect the flora and fauna at Aarey Milk Colony with his decisions to scrap a Metro car depot and declare 800 acres as forest in the green zone, but ground realities do not seem to match with his efforts. Activists fighting to save Mumbai’s green lungs say trees are being killed inside Aarey in the vicinity of the now-abandoned car shed.

A discarded identity card issued by MMRCL at the site