- Living Earth Walk at Sungei Buloh with Cicada Tree Eco Place
- The Art of Paper Folding at Sungei Buloh.
Beginning 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! Registration still open.
Walks in wild places
- "A Forest No Less" in Bukit Batok Nature Park
- Trees of the Fort a guided walk at Fort Canning Park
- Forest walk at the Botanic Gardens Rainforest Trail
- Mangrove walk at Sungei Buloh on Saturday and Sunday with a special Mandarin guided walk.
- Wallace Education Centre Gallery walk
- "Getting to Know MacRitchie" a guided tour
Talks this week
- 7 Jul (Wed): "Tree vs. Tide - How mangroves colonise bare mudflats"
- 10 Jul (Sat): "Discover the Secret Garden on Pulau Ubin"
Registration now open
- 17 Jul (Sat): Living Earth Walk at Chek Jawa boardwalk with Cicada Tree Eco Place
Highlights of Singapore nature news
- Going batty over new findings NParks team scours jungles to study bats; they find one new species and rediscover 2 more, Victoria Vaughan Straits Times 5 Jul 10;
- Outdoor classes for pre-schoolers More such centres go beyond books and let children learn from play, Leow Si Wan Straits Times 5 Jul 10;
- Cities to get biodiversity index Victoria Vaughan Straits Times 3 Jul 10;
- Energy self-sufficiency not possible: MM Business Times 30 Jun 10;
Highlights of Singapore nature blogs
- Article on Coral conservation in Singapore from wonderful creation
- Life History of the Chocolate Sailor from Butterflies of Singapore
- Yellow-vented Bulbuls’ “rain dance” – an answer at last? from Bird Ecology Study Group
- Wetlands magazine now online! from wild shores of singapore
- Singapore oil spill in Seagrass Watch Magazine from teamseagrass
- Baby Common Birdwings @ AH Butterfly Trail from Beauty of Fauna and Flora in Nature
- How's Tanah Merah one month after the oil spill? from wild shores of singapore
- Bleaching at Sentosa from wild shores of singapore
- Giant endangered grouper served in Singapore restaurant from wild shores of singapore
Photo of the week: a rare view of a bat feeding on flowers by Chan Kwok Wai. Today it was announced that an NParks field survey has revealed a new bat record and rediscovered two bats in Singapore! One of them smells like 'stale socks soaked in engine oil'. Read more about the bat discoveries on the Celebrating Singapore's Biodiversity blog.
