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For 27-year-old Thane resident, Shaila Bajpayee, a slight imbalance in the ecosystem at Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary (TCFS) — home hundreds of flamingos — could cause irreparable damage to the marshlands. If the birds stop coming, we will lose something that was the pride of the area,” Bajpayee, who runs an environmental club in her society said. Bajpayee was among the scores of residents of Airoli who had stood up against the environment clearance to the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed train corridor. The sanctuary, environmentalists says, is home to Golden Jackal, an apex predator, and several amphibians, birds and snakes. The animals constitute such a delicate cycle in the marshlands that it would be damaged with the smallest imbalance,” the zoology student said..