After aircraft and stone throwers, drones are posing a major threat to the safety of flamingos at the Navi Mumbai wetlands. Bird enthusiasts visiting the wetlands to get a closer look at the pink birds, have been flying drones over the birds. At times, drones are flown just one or two feet above the birds, said NatConnect Foundation in its complaint to the CM.

The sharp, whirring propeller blades badly hurt and even kill the fragile birds, which are covered under the Wildlife Protection Act- 1972, NatConnect director BN Kuma has said. What is even more dangerous for the birds is that the drones try to track them during their flights, Kumar said, and called for the official intervention to keep drones away from flamingo zones. Kumar marked his mail to the State director general of police, Navi Mumbai police commissioner and the mangrove cell.