How 130,000 flamingos changed Mumbai!
Now citizens hold annual flamingo-themed festivals to raise awareness of local wetlands, and the Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary.
The flamingos only began visiting Mumbai in significant numbers in the 1990s. As the city grew in the 1970s and ’80s, so did the volume of untreated sewage flowing into Thane Creek, nurturing the algae that are the flamingos’ main food and turning the area into a feeding ground for the birds.
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