The Better India · 18 hours ago

How Shruti & Sunil Agarwal Helped Save Navi Mumbai’s Flamingo Wetlands From a Golf Course Project

Along the edge of Navi Mumbai, a wetland that turned pink with flamingos each winter was being cleared for luxury housing and a golf course-mangroves cut overnight, an entire ecosystem dismissed as wasteland. Shruti and Sunil Agarwal noticed the changes during their morning walks, and what began with a single video of workers chopping mangroves became years of showing up in courtrooms and hearings, even when told they could not win. In 2018, the Bombay High Court ordered the destruction to stop, and the land began to breathe again-mangroves returned, and with them, thousands of flamingos. The story quietly insists that what saves a place is often not power, but the refusal to stop noticing what is being lost.