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Maharashtra Nature Park - A Green Emerald of Mumbai City

Established with the aim to provide education and to generate awareness about Nature Conservation, Maharashtra Nature Park (MNP) with its wonderful settings and rich biodiversity makes ideal place for this purpose.

Developed on an erstwhile garbage dumping ground area, MNP has vast expenses of manmade forest and its also surrounded by the natural ecosystem of the mangrove forests of Mithi River.

Maintained strictly to conserve its Natural Heritage (with the focus to conserve all life forms those who have made Nature Park their home), while on visit to MNP every visitor fails to remember that he is still very much in the heart of the city.

Visitors eager to come here again and again are vouching that Nature Park makes ideal place to study biodiversity and to learn Nature ethics in absolute relaxed atmosphere.

Flora

There are today nearly 14000 plants of some varieties, including woody trees and a wealth of herbs and shrubs. 

Reptiles

Feeding on the rodents living on the landfill site, snakes became an integral part of MNP ecology along with the process of it becoming woodland.

Spiders

Spiders holds a reputation of scary,ugly and creepy animal and hence most ignored and feared.

Mammals

The mammals regularly reported from here include species of bats and rodents. the striped squirrels can be sighted regularly.

Birds

The scarcity of space and greed for natural resources by humans is pushing the birds to the brink of extinction. Balancing between the development and the needs of wildlife has never been easy.

Butterfly

For most of us introduction to wilderness starts with running behind butterflies which are seen around our homes, parks or gardens. 

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A Green Emerald of Mumbai City

Since 1994 MNPS has the aim to provide education and to generate
awareness about Nature Conservation.