Mumbai woman fights to protect urban forest home to leopards and indigenous community – BBC News

In the Indian megacity of Mumbai there’s an urban forest four times the size of New York’s Central Park, which is home to a community of indigenous people who live alongside leopards.

Now the government has said they are going ahead with a plan to cut into the forest to build a depot for subway trains.

The project has sparked widespread protests and a debate about conservation and development.

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