17-23 Aug: Highlights of the week ahead

For kids and the family

• MAD lessons on strange plants on Thursday and Sunday

Walks in our wild places

• Mangrove walk at Sungei Buloh on Saturday and Sunday.
• Guided walk at Evolution Garden

For Nature Society (Singapore) members only

• Birdwatching at Bukit Brown
• Plant Walk at Upper Seletar Reservoir Park
• Pulau Ubin Ramble

Talks

• 18 Aug (Tue): Talk on "How good is your river?"
• 18 Aug (Tue): Talk on "Confessions of a Nature Addict" by Prof Leo Tan.
• 20 Aug (Thu): Talk on "An Orientalist's Treasure Trove"
• 21 Aug (Fri): Talk on "The Life Of A Tree Climber"
  
• 23 Aug (Sun): Talk on "Saving Money and Saving the Earth - Can One Have it All?" by Shawn Lum

Exhibitions and more

• Green Transport Week from 22 Aug
  
• August: Kranji Countryside promotion
  
• 8 Aug-22 Nov: "I Polunin" social and natural history of Singapore and Malaya
• 1-30 Aug: "Wallace & Darwin, the Two Faces of Evolution Theory"
• 25 Jul - 21 Sep: Hunters and Collectors: The Origins of the Southeast Asian Collection

Registration now open

• 12 Sep (Sat): Young Naturalist Passport Camp at Sungei Buloh
• 30 Aug (Sun): Dive Pulau Hantu with the Hantu Bloggers
• 30 Aug (Sun), 16 Aug (Sun): Southern Ridges walk with Cicada Tree Eco Place
• 29 Aug (Sat): Free Chek Jawa boardwalk tour with the Naked Hermit Crabs

Visit the wildsingapore happenings blog for a full listing of upcoming events for the next three weeks and to search for events by your area of interest.

Photos of the week are the seahorses of Singapore. Visit the new flickr group on Seahorse Sightings in Singapore for a look at our seahorses. If you have sighted seahorses, please do share your photo on the flickr group.

Seahorse (Hippocampus kuda), originally uploaded by wildsingapore.