MUMBAI: In perhaps the first such move to reclaim mangrove belts that have been lost to debris dumping over the last three decades, the Mangrove Foundation, Mahapreit, a state-owned renewable energy company, and the BMC will undertake an experimental project to re-establish the lost mangrove zone in P North ward (Malad-Malvani).
This belt, officials said, has vanished after being buried under debris dumped by encroachers in the late 1990s.