Five-year-old Arjun Mehta and his friends Siddhant Kothari and Saisha Kothari who had appeared in a video requesting PM Narendra Modi and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe to Save Aarey on Friday met Yuva Sena Chief Aaditya Thackeray. They shared with him a copy of the report that was submitted by a city-based NGO Empower Foundation to International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The report points to evidence of wildlife in Aarey.

The three five-year-olds have been involved in calling attention to Aarey's wildlife since 2016. When he was just two-and-a-half years old Mehta had recorded a video appealing to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra to save Aarey. In March 2019, Mehta and his friends reiterated their request to PM Modi and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe (Japan International Cooperation Agency has provided a loan of R6,000 crore for the second tranche of the Colaba-Seepz Metro 3 project) in another video that went viral at the time. In the video they'd had highlighted the biodiversity of Aarey which includes nine leopards amongst 290 species of wild animals and birds.