- Our Kitchen Garden tour at Pasir Ris Park.
- Monkeys with the Nature Keepers
Walks in wild places
- Guided walk at the Sensory Trail, Pulau Ubin.
- Rainforest walk at the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve.
- Mangrove walk at Pasir Ris Park.
- Mangrove walk at Sungei Buloh on Saturday and Sunday.
- National Orchid Garden guided tour.
Talks this week
- 16 Oct (Sat): "Butterflies of Singapore" by Khew Sin Khoon, author of the recently launched Field Guide to Butterfliers of Singapore.
Registration now open
- 31 Oct (Sun): Dive Pulau Hantu with the Hantu Bloggers
- 22 Oct (Fri): Free screening of "Home" and panel discussion
- 20 Oct (Wed): "Our Home, The Seashore" with Cicada Tree Eco Place
Highlights of Singapore nature news
- 'Nature corridor' proposal for railway land Nature Society's idea incorporates cycling paths, recreational areas Jeremy Au Yong Straits Times 9 Oct 10;
- Monkey menace? Most primates in Singapore benign Most primates here benign, just do not threaten, provoke or feed them, experts advise Ang Yiying & Jalelah Abu Baker Straits Times 9 Oct 10;
- The eagle has landed - in a vet's hands Lin Yang Straits Times 9 Oct 10;
Highlights of Singapore nature blogs
- First visit to South Cyrene from wild shores of singapore
- Did I Spot A Very Rare Damselfly? from Beauty of Fauna and Flora in Nature
- Another pleasant trip to MacRitchie from Urban Forest
- Nephila antipodiana from Trek through Paradise
- Back to eastern Semakau from wonderful creation
- Explosion at Chek Jawa, of sea anemones from wild shores of singapore
- Oriental Pied Hornbill catches insects from Bird Ecology Study Group
- Coral bleaching situation at Tuas from wild shores of singapore
- Digging around at Pandan Reservoir from Water Quality in Singapore
- Living water from Ubin.sgkopi
- A Bag of Bones – A National Heritage and a Lesson for Humanity? from Deadpoet's Cave
- Bullfroggery from The annotated budak
- Search for Pemphis acidula from Urban Forest
Photos of the week are the very many lovely butterfly photos featured in the brand new 'Field guide to the butterflies of Singapore' that was recently launched. Read all about the book in Metamorphosis - the Birth of a New (Butterfly) Book from Butterflies of Singapore. To find out more, come for the author's talk on 16 Oct (Sat): "Butterflies of Singapore".
