Flamingos return to Panje wetland

Wildlife enthusiast Parag Gharat posted the pictures celebrating the sighting of over 300 flamingos at the wetland

The wetland often goes due to the blocking of intertidal water by vested interests who want the water body to remain dry, NatConnect Foundation said

To the relief of environmentalists, the State govt has listed Panje as one of the 564 wetlands listed and documented by a Chennai based research institute

It is now the responsibility of CIDCO, Raigad district collector to ensure that the water inlets at Panje are never choked, NatConnect director B N Kumar said

Vanashakti and Sagar Shakti have been fighting a legal battle at Bombay High Court to save the wetland and the biodiversity of ecologically fragile Uran