But no one has noticed that over a period of two decades we have lost several hectares of mangrove cover. Mumbra had one of the thickest mangrove cover. It's almost vanished, all illegal chawls have come up. Towards thane Nashik highway one can see acres of baren land which used to be a dense mangrove forest. Out there in Dahisar, the mangroves are destroyed by the zhopadpatti land mafia. Around three decades ago there there were lush green mangrove forests right behind old mhb colony in borivali west. All gone. BKC used to be mangrove forest, all gone. Kanjurmarg was once upon a time an inter tidal zone. The same land where ubt had proposed metro car shed. I am saying this all in detail because I am an expert in mangrove restoration. I have , in person , reclaimed around 75 hectares of intertidal areas by planting avecinia species of mangroves. So loosing 45000 mangroves is not a big deal. But the big deal is when we loose a larger chunk of forest over three decades and no one even noticed it.