Nice story. Other community must follow their resources to save environment

I live in Thane and have very close relation with Koli community.What shown in this documentary is 100% true.

Mangroves are extremely important eco systems and need to be protected. Well done to the fisherman in taking it upon themselves to save them!

Pls friends...while going to market pls take cloth bags stop using carry bags at least for vegetables and fruits.

Your all this kind of documentaries are really laudable. Thanks for covering all these story from zero level and bringing into light. All the stories of #Eco India are really inspiring & motivate us to build a sustainable future. Huge respect for u. Make more documentaries like this.

Mangrove in Mumbai, heard first time but glad to see them (First line of defense) Need to protect and promote them, coastal regulation zone are very week, we need active government at ground level

I wonder what happened to the plastic ban implemented last year. Plastic is back in circulation all over Maharashtra.

I remember growing up in mumbai. I use to see snow abundance of different types of fish. And it was always the women selling it. They were so clean and dressed likes brides. I do hope they have still kept their dress style intact. The the Fisher people are the true guardians of the sea I hope the government listens and takes their advice to conserve and save the mangroves

Thank you fishing community for saving the mangroves

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed... -MKG

It's disheartening to see the destruction we humans have made😞

An amazing success story that we need to learn from. Mangroves are one of the most important life support systems on the planet!

We are staying in Dreams complex next toRly Stn Bhandup west n very well acquainted with the place also many times we visited to the spot for birds sanctuary .. Basically our family in Mumbai since 1945 brought up n educated in Mumbai and belongs to the coastal communities of mangalore district in karnataka . We understand the pain of the activists and local Kolis and Agris community of Mumbai. My request to all that we mus protect the mangroves and give our support to them in every possible way in their good work ..Else some day the builders lobby of Mumbai grab everything n this land parcel also.. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

A big salute to the efforts taken by these people. Let this be an eye opener to all

Another incredible story! So excited to see what the other episodes of this series hold.

Amazing conservation efforts more power and appreciation to them

A grand salute to Mr. Nandkumar Pawar and his fellow Koli brothers/sisters, thanks a lot to Scroll for surfacing such critical piece of info before common Indians like me. Having spent most of my lifetime in Mumbai and seen how ever growing number of migrants (from within state of MH and all over India) has completely turned Mumbai into chaotic piece of trash, I genuinely believe that Mumbai needs Thanos to wipe out half of its population ASAP. The illegal land encroachment done by huge number of migrants that keeps dumping into the city every single day from all over India must be stopped immediately. I dont understand why in country of over 1.3 billion we got just few handful of cities like Mumbai/Bangalore/Chennai/Hyderabad/Pune where people from all over India migrate to for jobs/businesses ? looking as size and population of India we need at least 50 such cities spread across the whole length and breadth of the country so that few cities wont chock up to death due to migration like what is happening in cities like Mumbai/Bangalore. Both these cities are heading to point of no return when it comes to self destruction due to ever growing number of migrants and rapid growth of industries concentrated at one place. Take some serious measures to control population and better spread development across the country than keeping it limited to few cities which are already screwed up big time.

Beautifully captured. Really happy to see such initiatives being taken by the local communities, and even happier to see the positive results of these efforts!

Real heroes... Their work should be spread.... speacially to mumbaikars.....

Great community....... Others should consider these as role model to save our Mother Nature 🌏🌏🌏

Hats off to these people for their relentless pursuit towards the conservation of nature...

People from India seem so smart, why are there so many examples of them not properly handling their own waste?

Scroll please make a video on rally for rivers and cauvery calling 🙏 it's necessary to save farmers and cauvery river

The place shown is bird watching and hangout spot of us. Almost 150 species of birds found here. Need to conserve this place

Morning fix fans give ur attendance

Very Nice capturing of facts which everyone needs to be across... All it's begin with us...I start for a change...

Proud to be Koli...🙏🙏🙏 Jai Ekvira Aai 🙏🙏🙏

Bring back 'Morning fix'

One individual can make a difference there's only one step ahead of others needed Put the trash in dustbin Plant trees around your home Bowl of water /wasted food on the roof top in front of your house Loving nature automatically changes people's mindset could bring peace to the world.

Salute to these guys, they have done superb job... ❤️

Your videos inspiring to so many youth and people of india to follow and bring a change in their own places.so that human kind will flourish in all areas .

Nice video.. please make a video on East Kolkata Wetlands.

Miga Miga Arumai!! Vazhthukkal!!

never knew. when I'll visit India, I'll make sure to come and see👍

Hats off to these peoples.

Gr8 video

Thank you so much for bringing this informative video to us.

Very nice information ❤️🙏💐💐

17th September 11am in front of Bombay High Court, Fort is a gathering planned since the cases filed for Aarey Carshed opposition will be heard. Please spread the word. Thanks.

The lush green mangroves shown in this video was the initiative of S.P Godrej. He had protected the mangrove forest in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai and gifted lot of land of Godrej company near vikhroli for the conservation of Mangrove. He had said Mangroves protect Mumbai so we must protect them. You can see the difference of mangroves between eastern suburbs of Mumbai and rest of Mumbai. The most difficult part is local politicians and builder mafias are cutting the mangroves for land grabbing. We saw that happened a lot in Airoli and other parts of Navi Mumbai. Mangroves were destroyed and local politicians claimed the land as their property and started building fences so that no one can enter them and in course of time managed to get some fraud superficial paper work to claim the land and in future get the land legally by political pressure and money bribing. Good to know local fishermen community working for this cause. International awareness is must and also protection of endangered migratory pink flamingos that come and breed in these mangroves. It looks very beautiful when the birds come.

90 million residents.. about one percent of India's massive population in just one city.. more satellite cities needed, to reduce burden on urban center's and sustainable options.

Thank you

In the near future, New York City needs mangroves. I kid you not, but rising sea levels, superstorms, and Atlantic hurricanes can wipe out the whole city in 1-2 days. I hope it can learn something from Mumbai. Thank you for this video. It gives us a little bit of hope.

Good report

INCREASING POPULATION IS ALSO A MAJOR REASON BEHIND THIS, MORE PEOPLE IN SMALL AREA CAUSE MORE POLLUTION . WE MUST STOP EXCESSIVE IMMIGRATION IN MUMBAI TO AVOID ILLEGAL LAND GRABBING. #SAVE MUMBAI#SAVE.MAHARASHTRA.

Yet another wonderful presentation.. kudos to the team

The forest dwellers at Aarey must get all the help they can get.The government is fighting dirty and actually claims that this diverse ecosystem and most needed green lungs of Mumbai is not 'Forest Land ' but government land so they can chop some 3000 trees , displace leopards , monkeys ,birds , insects , medicinal plants and trees , all manner of flora and fauna , to build the Metro sheds.

Marvelous!!

Hats off for making this video.. 🖤

This destruction by humans needs to be stop! Truly a beautiful video which would surely make atleast few people realise the worsening condition of mangroves and their importance as well!

lakhs of flamingos also come here! Delight to watch

Well made and well explained

Nice video...

another great vedio..

U r doing grt job lv your videos #scroll.in💞

Thanks #eco_india let's start the movement from your own house.

And people wonder why Marathi people hate on UP Bihari people who create slums and dirt in Mumbai.

Hats of sir 👏👏

I think government should take more initiative to protect it.. because local people have very few source.

Appreciate your work

Gov shud Reduce Burden on Mumbai by Developing Near by Cities like Vadodara, Rajkot, Indore, Nagpur with Good Connectivity to Mumbai .

Horrendous situation around mumbai city is not paving a way towards the consevation of these beautiful mangroves....!!!!

Not only mumbai mangrove ,Pichavaram mangrove is in India too,Tamil nadu

amazing

@Scroll.in plz make more video like this ...

It's not the only mangrove , west bengal also has a part of the largest mangroves in the delta of the river Ganges.

Yes, We have to help ourselves instead of relying on the government to take control of the situation before it is too late...

I love mangrove trees and everyone is distorting them

good job guys

Blessed with 7,600 kms coast line with 3oceans around. It is high time to pay great emphsis on; 1//Ecology; Bio sphere...Agriculture.Flora and Fauna. Start planting.. growing MANGROVES in all coastal belts states and intesne planttaion needed with proper Standarsd /Specification.. 2/Build to reclaim land from Seas atleast few miles so you can build most Modern INFRASTRUCTURE.. CLEAN..NEAT with no intereference.. Best Roads.bridges.. loops... 3 Tier roads. Sky scrapers.. etc. and best WATER WAYS;Water Tarnsport Systems.

Mangrove trees prevent flooding.

You know most people say Mumbai was built by outsiders, wrong Mumbai was destroyed by outsiders, Just look around they built it that way that the natives and nature are suffering, Great building

Everyone is responsible for destruction, so everyone need to take action against the destruction made both sectors

fix the marathi subtitle in auto translate.

It's a nice initiative by this community but other people also need to understand the impact of their activities . Especially the dumping activity should be checked by the government, its our home we need to save it.

Excellent thank you so much for this

I think there's a need to save the Mangroves forest of Mumbai.

Hence proved mumbai bmc is the most curropt

Morning fix???

❤

Someone do something about this man!!!

Problem is that people want to live in a world of grey material (cement) and not green

They have cut so many mangroves in ulwe(Navi Mumbai) and are still cutting it😔 #savemangroves

Does this grass roots mangrove protection group have a website or other way to connect with them?

North indian must create awareness/escalate n social media rather than seeing only Movies. Like southindian States(Kerala, Tamilnadu) strict Ban on plastic usage should come to Save environment.

🙏🙏🙏👍

Ma'am.still missing your "morning fix" videos

These local do more than what the so called rich or educated knew

So he filed a court complaint on the villagers who are hunting to feed themselves instead of the companies who put dump there. Well done.

Please bring back, your morning fix

Indians are traditionally not meat eaters, they are vegetarian. Of course, traditionally all Indians were farmers, only a few big cities. So there has to be a new subject of study at universities: How to keep big cities full of biodiversity, birds, bees, butterflies, and the water-bodies clean like drinking water

Govt should make releasing treated water outside buildings, so that water doesnt get polluted. Many high rise buildings in chicago utilise water but they release back treated water back, not polluted water. All buildings should mandatorily have Treatment plants and Government should also keep a check on reducing effluents and plastic usage and increase treatment plants and make city Around look good. First make dignity homes for people living in those shacks inside city. After alloting those homes, take back that shacks filled land and auction it to property developers and make city filled planned infrastructure to lead a Ecofriendly life.

👍👍

Please use cloth bag while go to the market. A cloth bag can make a big change.

Rising see levels will get them

Good one scroll please make video on cauvery water depletion and support ongoing capmaign of sadhguru.

4 years later that community has been displaced by the building of the coastal road

We miss the daily morning fix 😞

Everyone just busy in small term happiness but in long run it’s very dangerous

increase the punishment and better enforcement