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With Mumbai's Biodiversity and Green Spaces Under Threat, City's Youth and Experts Unite To Demand F
With Mumbai's Biodiversity and Green Spaces Under Threat, City's Youth and Experts Unite To Demand F
With Mumbai's Biodiversity and Green Spaces Under Threat, City's Youth and Experts Unite To Demand F
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With Mumbai’s biodiversity and W H AT I S Q R I U S
green spaces under threat, city’s Broaden your horizons as unpack fresh
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youth and experts unite to the question 'Why should I care?'
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Ministry of Mumbai’s Magic, a citizen’s collective
announced Biodiversity by the Bay campaign, which aims to create
a movement of young, progressive Mumbaikars who lead an
inclusive and an active climate debate, to safeguard the biodiversity
and green cover in the city. Aligned with this aim, the youth and A
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subject matter experts have come together to invoke government Mermaids in Japan – from
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In the last few decades, the city has witnessed shrinking of city
parks and natural forests. The well-being and livelihood security of
indigenous communities have been largely ignored on the account 3
of development. At the same time, in recent years, the numbers of
Flamingos have multiplied on the few remaining wetlands which
calls to attention the need to protect these spaces. Young
Mumbaikars have come together to demand the protection of
biodiversity and green spaces for a Mumbai where sustainability
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and modernity go hand-in-hand. The campaign will culminate in
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engagement with key stakeholders like the BMC, and writing to SWIFTLY Excluded From
Aditya Thackeray, Maharashtra’s Environment and Tourism Global Banking System
Minister, to initiate conversation on the future of Mumbai’s
biodiversity. The appeal includes a five-point action plan including
the protection of Lesser Flamingos and their habitats, given their 4
significance to Mumbai; acknowledging Aarey as a forest and
increasing the protection for Mumbai’s green cover; proposing a
supportive policy for the Koli community’s livelihoods, in
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While the BMC has devised an Open Space Policy and in its
Development Plan (2014-2034) for the city promised 6.13 square
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metres of open space per person including forests and mangroves,
along with a commitment to a 100 new parks, how much of this
open green space will be accessible remains a big question.
Mumbai has some of the most rapid urban growth in the country,
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scarcity and poor public infrastructure. This has struck the young Q Contraire: Why Are You
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Mumbaikars motivating them to act and save.
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