A golden jackal was crushed to death by an unidentified speeding vehicle around midnight recently, on the service road near DPS Flamingo Lake, Nerul, in Navi Mumbai.

An unidentified four-wheeler hit the jackal, crushing it, a volunteer of the Wildlife Welfare Association (WWA) said, as reported in our paper. Environmentalists have called for strict measures to prevent such occurrences.

Some called for a complete halt to any further real estate development in the area to protect mangrove-wetland wildlife. They said that the DPS Flamingo Lake and surrounding mangroves were recently declared a conservation reserve, and the area around it must be left undisturbed for wildlife.