As CIDCO rejected state mangrove cell's proposal to protect five wetlands, including the ones at Panje and Talawe, environment groups have sent an SOS to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to ignore the planning agency's objection. The green groups, in a fresh plea to the CM, called for immediately signing the pending orders to accord the status of bird sanctuaries to Panje and Talawe wetlands.

"Even as the government's formal decision on declaring Panje and Talawe wetlands as bird sanctuaries is pending, CIDCO has rejected a proposal from the mangrove cell to handover these two and four other wetlands to them for protecting and conserving them," B N Kumar, director, NatConnect Foundation said.