19-25 Jul: Highlights of the week ahead

For kids and the family

• Free Chek Jawa boardwalk tour with the Naked Hermit Crabs

Special event at Pulau Ubin

• Tree planting at Pulau Ubin with 350 Singapore

Walks in wild places

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

Talk this week

• 23 Jul (Fri): Borneo's Last, Mysterious Civet

For Nature Society (Singapore) members only

• Birdwatching at Bukit Brown

Registration now open

• 29 Aug (Sun): Dive Pulau Hantu with the Hantu Bloggers
• 18 Aug (Wed): "Our Home, The Rainforest" with Cicada Tree Eco Place
• 28 Jul (Wed): "Our Home, The Freshwater Stream and Pond" with Cicada Tree Eco Place

NEW! Mega Marine Survey of Singapore! What do we have on our shores? We will soon find out as NParks has launched a Comprehensive Marine Biodiversity Survey! And ordinary people too can make a difference by volunteering for this Mega Marine Survey. More about the survey and how to register your interest.

Continuing this week! Specially for Singapore shore guides: veteran, newbie, wannabe! A weekly series of intensive workshops (8 Jul - 5 Aug) that covers all our favourite shore ecosystems, and ends with a field session! This week: a workshop on our coral reefs. Registration still open.


Highlights of Singapore nature news

• Singapore oil spill: Rethinking the Measure of Growth Wayne Arnold The New York Times 18 Jul 10;
• 220kg grouper served in restaurant: 'The fish is listed as a vulnerable species' Straits Times Forum 19 Jul 10;
• Flash floods stain Singapore's reputation as urban paradise Philip Lim Yahoo News 19 Jul 10;
• Mandai Orchid Garden: 'Save the orchids, save our heritage' Melissa Pang Straits Times 18 Jul 10;
• Cambodia: Sand dredging prompts fishermen’s protests IRIN 15 Jul 10;

Highlights of Singapore nature blogs

• "Our HOME" - a nature education programme for children by Cicada Tree Eco Place from Celebrating Singapore's BioDiversity!
• Cyrene's Gems from the brand new blog Urchin's World
• Life History of the Anderson's Grass Yellow from Butterflies of Singapore
• Singapore restaurant serves another giant endangered grouper from wild shores of singapore
• TeamSeagrass at Semakau and driftnet removal from teamseagrass
• Cyrene Reef with TeamSeagrass from teamseagrass
• First trip to Terumbu Pempang Tengah from wild shores of singapore
• Sharing Cyrene with JTC from wild shores of singapore
• Checking Changi for oil spill effects: cucumber suprise! from wild shores of singapore

Photo of the week is this awesome view of Cyrene taken by Russel and shared on his brand new blog into the wild. Check out his vibrant photos and stories of all kinds of nature things from bugs to books, and corals to koels.