If everything goes as planned, in the next few months the mangrove cell of the forest department will begin a population estimation study of the golden jackal in mangrove forests in and around Mumbai. This will be the first such study.

The head of the mangroves cell, Virendra Tiwari, who is also the additional principal chief conservator of forests, said, "Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region are unique landscapes with mangrove forests. The golden jackal is an important mammal found in mangrove forests, and we wanted to do a detailed study about the population and its distribution, so the Mangrove Foundation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Wildlife Conservation Society-India for the same, and the research will begin in the coming months."