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Mar 13, 2018 · Forest fire at Yogi Hills in Mulund on Tuesday. (Express photo by Janak Rathod) Fire broke out in different pockets of Sanjay Gandhi National Park on Tuesday. According to forest officials, they suspect the fire to be man-made caused by encroachers to clear forest land.
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Apr 14, 2019 11:10 PM IST. The blaze, which broke out around 6.20am, occurred because the garbage caught fire owing to the rise in temperature. However it was doused in 10-15 minutes, the...
Mar 5, 2013 · By Akshay Deshmane. Published: Tuesday 05 March 2013. Persistent fires in contiguous forests behind Mumbai’s Goregaon Film City complex and the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) since Monday evening singed about four hectares of forests. No human or wildlife casualty was reported.
(Praful Gangurde) According to the forest department, a fire started at Mulund and Tulsi at 4pm. Within an hour, two fires were reported at Wagale Estate, Yeoor — the first from Ram Nagar and...
We witnessed a huge forest fire while doing some field work in the Nagla Block of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, in March 2012. It took two of us more than an hour to create a fire line and beat the fire, preventing it from spreading further west.
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Dense forest River in the park. This park is home to a number of endangered species of flora and fauna. The forest area of the park houses over 1,000 plant species, 251 species of migratory, land, and water birds, 5,000 species of insects, and 40 species of mammals.
Feb 21, 2018 · MUMBAI: Around two hectares of Sanjay Gandhi National Park was affected by a major fire that broke out late on Wednesday evening. Anwar Ahmed, chief conservator of forests said the fire was at Damu Nagar, Kandivali. “Luckily it is on the forest side and not near the hutments else it would have been a bigger tragedy,” he said.
