While many green warriors considered it a victory when the forested Aarey Colony was recognised as an Eco Sensitive Area (ESA) in the draft notification released on Saturday by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF), not all environmentalists are satisfied, as they think the green pocket is still threatened by loopholes that can be exploited by the construction lobby.

This picture by wildlife photographer Prabhu Swami shows a leopard basking in the Aarey greens. Activists have been demanding that the green pocket be protected from ecological damage by prohibiting all construction work there