With Cyclone Tauktae uprooting many trees near the entrance of a lake on Lokhandwala’s Backroad, locals and nature lovers have raised concerns over what they called unnecessary concretisation in the vicinity of the waterbody. 

“Only those trees that are located in humanised and concretised areas, such as at the entrance of the lake and the lane adjoining it, have fallen down,” said Wildlife Filmmaker Sumesh Lekhi, 48, a resident of Lokhandwala and the founder of the citizens’ group ‘Friends of the Environment’.