Author: Bombay Environmental Action Group and Another
Publisher: Bombay High Court of Judicature at Bombay
Place: Mumbai
Category: Government Document
Keyword: Mangrove Judgement
Abstract: This Public Interest Litigation (PIL) concerns the issue of destruction of mangroves in the entire State of Maharashtra. The word “Mangrove” is considered to be a combination of the Portuguese word “Mangue” and the English word “grove”. Mangroves are salt¬tolerant plants of tropical and subtropical intertidal regions of the world. The specific regions where these plants occur are termed as ‘mangrove ecosystem’. These are highly productive but extremely sensitive and fragile. It is said about the mangroves that they are living life on the edge, with one foot on land and one in the sea. They survive in a harsh environment, adapting well to the scorching heat, deep mud and saltwater that would otherwise kill other plants. Yet they are tenacious and very useful for the environment. The occasion for filing the main PIL is that the importance of very tenacious mangroves for the benefit of the mankind is ignored and mangroves are being destructed in the State on a very large scale.