Mumbai’s green gladiators want forests at every corner, or at least in as many gardens as possible in the city. The only way to combat ‘concrete jungles’ used with good reason to describe Mumbai, is to create a jungle of one’s own, and that jungle is a forest. The BMC and Mission Green Mumbai are working together to rope in citizens “to create mini forests in different gardens in Mumbai”, they stated.

Subhajit Mukherjee, founder, Mission Green Mumbai, said they are starting to make an urban forest on Saturday, a day after Dussehra. The site that has been earmarked is the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Udyan at Hiranandani Powai. Mukherjee said, “A mini forest will be created here in a plot marked inside the garden. Approximately 250 saplings are going to be planted in a space of 100 square metres. We will have at least 20 varieties of native saplings including fruits and flowering trees, which will be planted inspired by the Japanese Miyawaki technique.”