Marine experts and officials from the state mangrove cell said that the episode of turtles hatching on Mumbai’s shoreline has been reported for the first time in 20 years. “We will push for development of a turtle rescue centre within the premises of the nesting site. We hope and expect to build it soon,” said Prashant Deshmukh, range forest officer of western region, Mumbai Mangrove Conservation Unit. The Versova beach was considered to be the dirtiest in the city, until Shah and his team started cleaning it up over a period of 126 weeks. They have now removed more than one crore kilos of plastic and other garbage from the periphery of the beach. The crusade continues.