Citizens continue protests against proposed felling of 45,000 mangrove trees in Mumbai for Coastal Road project

Around 100 citizens gathered astatine the Amphitheatre astatine Carter Road, Bandra West, connected Sunday (May 17, 2026) evening for a peaceful nationalist consciousness successful effect to the projected felling of 45,000 mangrove trees for the 26.3 km-long Versova-Bhayander road, which is estimated to outgo implicit ₹18,000 crore and is the 2nd signifier of the northward hold of the Mumbai Coastal Road on the city’s westbound coast.

What was archetypal acceptable retired to beryllium a enactment of a quality concatenation on Carter Road of each those who had gathered, holding up placards and posters for nationalist awareness, was altered, owed to the deficiency of support from the Mumbai Police, to a gathering which featured music, unfastened conversations, nationalist interactions and a guided mangrove consciousness locomotion on the Carter Road coastline.

Participants engaged with members of the nationalist done informal discussions and consciousness activities focused connected the ecological value of mangroves, which enactment arsenic earthy buffers against utmost upwind events and prolong sportfishing communities, among a myriad of eco-sensitive roles they play.

Those gathered astatine the protestation called for accrued transparency successful the decision-making down the demolition of ecosystems, of mangroves, for example, thereby questioning the velocity astatine which it was implemented. Making decisions done meaningful consultation with section communities and experts was stressed upon arsenic well.