In a boost to environmentalists’ drive to save DPS Flamingo Lake in Nerul in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra Forest Minister Ganesh Naik has promised to pursue a government committee recommendation to declare the 30-acre wetland a conservation reserve.

The committee, appointed in the wake of a series of flamingo deaths in the vicinity of the DPS Lake, and to suggest ways to preserve the migratory bird habitats, has decided to recommend to the government to declare the water body as a conservation reserve.