A housing society's managing committee in Thane has invited the ire of an NGO working for wildlife welfare, for chopping a number of trees on its premises and displacing and killing some birds. The Thane-based NGO RAWW has alleged that due to the tree-cutting activity at Vijay Nagri Society, Kasarvadavli, some birds were displaced, nests damaged and young birds orphaned.

The president of NGO RAWW has written a letter to the Deputy Conservator of Forests, Thane Territorial Wing of the Maharashtra Forest Department, alleging that the activity has led to the violation of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, in a housing society. The NGO contacted the forest department and not the municipal corporation because the matter pertains to birds.