In a move that is being hailed by the nature and wildlife loving community, for the first time possibly in India, birds affected due to a development project will be relocated. Around 400 trees will be replanted for the Wadala-Thane-Kasarvadavli Mumbai Metro Line 4, and the hatchlings found in nests on them will be relocated to the trees transplanted in MMR, after they are fostered into adult birds. The eggs found in nests on the trees will be incubated and the adult birds will be relocated similarly.

For the birds
A team of 10 people from the agencies involved in the project, the MMRDA, Metro, Tata, Reliance, the Thane Forest Department and RAWW, conducted a nine-hour survey on foot at Thane from Teen Haath Naka to Kasarvadavli, marking all trees that had nests on them, for the exercise recently. Speaking to mid-day, Pawan Sharma, president of NGO RAWW and Honorary Wildlife Warden of Thane, said, "This is a really good thing and to the best of my knowledge something like this is happening for the first time. We will shift those trees after waiting for some of the birds to grow up and fly away on their own, or send the sub-adults for fostering and rehabilitation, and the eggs for incubation if necessary."