An interim report by the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), in the last week of January 2011, stated that the ship collision near the Mumbai coast which resulted into one of the worst oil spills destroyed 1273 hectares of mangroves along the Mumbai and Raiged coast. The report estimated that 400 to 500 tonnes of oil leaked from one of the ship’s fuel tank. It severely affected mangroves in areas such as Rewas, Elephanta, Uran, Vashi and Karanja. These mangroves don’t show any sign of regeneration.
The report by BNHS was commissioned by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests in the wake of collision between the merchant ships MSC Chitra and MV Khalija.
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