The Bombay High Court has said that a solitary mangrove tree does not require a 50-meter buffer zone around it, while allowing two housing societies in neighbouring Navi Mumbai to construct additional floors.

A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Kamal Khata on Thursday said it failed to understand how the construction of a few additional floors on existing buildings would pose a grave threat to a single mangrove tree, newswire PTI reported.