Aarey Forest  

While Uddhav Thackeray has halted the Mumbai Metro project to save Aarey trees, 1,000 trees in Aurangabad will be cut for Bal Thackeray memorial
 

On October 7, a special bench of the Supreme Court comprising justices Arun Mishra and Ashok Bhushan restricted authorities from cutting trees anymore in Mumbai's Aarey Forest

On October 5, the Bombay high court had refused to entertain urgent mentioning of Aarey activists to stay the ongoing tree cutting

Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi who was among those detained by Mumbai Police on Saturday claimed that she was "forcibly evicted" from the Aarey Colony protest site. Cops claimed she entered into an area where Section 144 was in effect. 

Activists who are protesting the felling of trees for the metro car shed in Mumbai’s Aarey colony have now sought the help of Japan PM Shinzo Abe.The Mumbai metro project is partly funded by Japan and will require cutting down of 2,700 trees at Mumbai's green lung.
 

Shraddha Kapoor, Raveena Tandon to Randeep Hooda and more, Bollywood actors and actresses come together to raise their voice against the proposed felling of over 2700 trees in Aarey forest to build a metro carshed

In order to pave way for the Metro carshed, the Mumbai civic body has given the nod for the felling of over 2,700 trees in the green Aarey colony area. Tree authority member and NCP corporator Kaptan Malik said he supported the decision to facilitate infrastructure development.