With over 200 stunning photographs, City Forest: Mumbai’s National Park is a visual celebration of the forest’s remarkable biodiversity, offering a glimpse into the secret world of its wildlife.

The Sanjay Gandhi National Park is a tropical wilderness within the limits of Mumbai, virtually unknown to most people outside the city. A protected area of almost 9,000 hectares, the park is fringed by a burgeoning population of more than twelve million people and is possibly India’s most visited nature reserve.
With over 200 stunning photographs, City Forest: Mumbai’s National Park is a visual celebration of the forest’s remarkable biodiversity, offering a glimpse into the secret world of its wildlife. The park is home to 274 kinds of birds, just under a quarter of India’s avifauna; 42 kinds of mammals of which the most renowned is the elusive leopard; 150 species of butterflies and nearly 8,000 species of other insects; and so much more. It has a floral extravagance of nearly 800 species of flowering plants from humble herbs and woody climbers to sturdy teak trees, and a diversity of habitat types.
A veritable field laboratory teeming with an amazing variety of life forms – much of which has yet to be documented – the forest is threatened by the inherent problem of an encroaching population.
An ideal getaway from the polluted city, this peerless wilderness also provides people with a unique opportunity for nature study, and environment and conservation education.

Sunjoy Monga is a naturalist, writer, wildlife cinematographer and photographer with a deep commitment to the environment and natural history issues. Second-prize winner in the 1991 BBC British Gas International Photographer of the Year competition, he was a cameraman andconsultant for Channel Four’s documentary series In Search of Wild India, as well as the Indian consultant for Sir David Attenborough’s BBC natural history project The Trials of Life. He is also the author of Wildlife Reserves of India, The Mumbai Nature Guide, Birds of Mumbai.