wild happenings in singapore

17 Mar (Sat): What's in my sky?

Birdwatchers, join us in this free guided walk and learn to identify many amazing birds of different species that passes through or make Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve their home.

Limited to 20 persons. Register online.

Time: 9.30am - 11am
Venue: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Wetland Centre
Please meet at Information Counter, Neo Tiew entrance
Website: http://www.nparks.gov.sg/

17 Mar (Sat): Nature Sketching in the Gardens with Pui San

Enjoy nature creatively through this engaging, fun and therapeutic activity. Join our volunteer artist, Mr Tham Pui San, as he teaches and guides you in acquiring drawing and observation skills to equip you for an interesting journey of nature appreciation.

This event is held every third Saturday of every alternate month

More details and registration online.

Time: 9am - 11am
Venue: Singapore Botanic Gardens
Website: http://www.sbg.org.sg/

17 Mar (Sat): Ecolife Tour at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park

This family tour introduces Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park and its biodiversity through the use of interactive exploration themes and activities. Have fun working together to answer worksheets, conduct surveys and photo hunts, among other activities.

More details and registration online.

Time: 9am -11am
Meeting point: Bishan- Ang Mo Kio Park Promenade
Contact: http://www.nparks.gov.sg/

16 Mar (Fri): Plants and Their Habitats -- a guided tour for kids

Just like us, plants need a home to provide themselves with food and shelter. Plant habitats are diverse, which include gardens, ponds and even deserts.

During this tour, children will be led to observe different plant habitats and explore the features of plants and understand how certain adaptations help plants survive.

Suitable for children in K1 - P6 levels. Register online.

Time: 10am - 11am
Venue: Botany Centre, Tanglin Core of the Singapore Botanic Gardens
Cost: $6 per child and $6 per accompanying adult. Please make the payment on the spot on the event date itself.
Website: http://www.nparks.gov.sg/

16 Mar (Fri): Nite Critter Watch at Pasir Ris Mangrove Boardwalk

This location is very good for a wild night critter walk and that’s why we keep going back there. As dusk falls, we will go to a nearby location to await the possible appearance of a family of Buffy Fish-owls living in the woodland habitat here. While there, we also look out for emerging bats and observe their acrobatic feeding flight. Kids will get to use our bat detector to catch their calls. We then head off to explore deep into the mangrove forest via the extensive boardwalks to look for other nocturnal critters who live in the swamp, such as the Dog-faced Watersnake, Spotted Wood-owl and more than 5 species of cute geckoes.

Tree-climbing crabs may be seen perched high above on branches, as if they're birds. Fireflies also live in this lovely mangrove forest patch. Though only seasonally numerous, we should meet some. Other exciting nocturnal critters met here include the Reticulated Python, Palm Civet and Mangrove Flatworm. We should also meet some sleeping daytime animals, such as the Giant Mudskipper and Oriental Whip Snake.

This easy walk is on level pathways and wooden boardwalks with no stairs. We will take a snack break at one of the shelters.

All kids must be accompanied by at least 1 adult guardian. Kids get info-sheets and native wildlife stickers.

More details and tickets on the facebook events page

Time: 6.15pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Pasir Ris Park Mangrove Boardwalk
We meet at 6.15pm outside the public toilet building at right corner of Car Park ‘C’ at end of Pasir Ris Green road which is off Pasir Ris Drive 3 Road.
Address: No.51 Pasir Ris Green, Singapore 518226.
Cost: $13 per participant (adult or child). Free for children aged 6 years and below. Payment in cash or cheque will be collected in person at the activity. Cheque to be made payable to: ‘Cicada Tree Eco-Place’

16 Mar (Fri): Nature Keeper Camp for kids

Designed to stimulate the interest of the young and inculcate in them an appreciation of our forests. This one-day Nature Keeper Camp aims to nurture young minds in active protection and conservation of our natural heritage.

Suitable for children 7 - 11 years old (Primary 1 to 5)
Minimum of 12 children, maximum of 40 children.
Parents are to drop off their children and pick them back up after the programme is over.

More details and registration online.

Time: 9am - 5pm
Venue: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve.
Cost: $25 per child. Includes all materials, tea breaks and lunch. Charges subsidized by Mitsubishi Corporation.
Website: http://www.nparks.gov.sg/

14 Mar (Wed): Nite Wild Critter Watch at Singapore Botanic Garden

Join Cicada Tree Eco Place at the Singapore Botanic Gardens (SBG), a lovely old garden created almost 200 years ago. It still retains its original primary rainforest patch. Although now totally surrounded by housing, busy roads and more development, this lush garden is still home to our smaller species of wildlife. The well-vegetated ponds here are nurseries for several species of frogs, and both insect and fruit eating bats roost in the garden’s palm trees.

As dusk falls, kids learn to use our bat detector to hear their echo-locating calls. The lovely Spotted Wood-owl, Buffy Fish-owl and tinier Collared Scops-owl all live here. We then walk the easy pathways to visit the ponds and other corners of the garden to meet other nite critters who live here such as the Four-lined Treefrog and Large-tailed Nightjar, plus maybe also encounter sleeping snakes and monitor lizards! We will end our walk back at our starting point in the lobby of Botany Centre.

This easy walk is on level pathways and wooden boardwalks with no stairs.

All kids must be accompanied by at least 1 adult guardian. Kids get info-sheets and native wildlife stickers.

More details and tickets on the facebook events page

Time: 6.15pm - 8.30pm
Venue: Tanglin Gate entrance of Singapore Botanic Garden (SBG)
We meet at 6.15pm in the main lobby (outside the souvenir shop) of the Botany Centre building of SBG entered via the garden’s Tanglin Gate entrance opposite Gleneagles Hospital at Napier Road.
PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT GO TO THE NASSIM GATE ENTRANCE VISITOR CENTRE at Nassim Road.
Address: No.1 Cluny Rd, Singapore 259569
Cost: $13 per participant (adult or child). Free for children aged 6 years and below. Payment in cash or cheque will be collected in person at the activity. Cheque to be made payable to: ‘Cicada Tree Eco-Place’

14 Mar (Wed): Day Wild Critter Watch at Singapore Botanic Garden (SBG)

Join Cicada Tree Eco Place at Singapore’s lovely old garden, a very ‘civilised’ place to start with to get to know your wild side. The level paths and boardwalks here encourage young children, and those adults ‘icky’ about forest and bugs to come outdoors to explore and sense the natural world around us.

This tame experience, we hope, will lead them to step into our rainforests, mangroves and other wilder habitats that still exist on our island, and which are homes to an incredible, glorious biodiversity. In SBG, you can easily observe a good diversity of our native wildlife that have adapted to parkland conditions. Here lives Flying Draco, 2 species of monitor lizards, 2 species of squirrels, frogs, toads, and many kinds of birds and insects. The Hill Myna, a globally endangered species, makes its nests in the tall trees here. Singapore’s unofficial National Bird, the Crimson Sunbird, can be seen in this garden.

The mature grove of Dipterocarps (giant native rainforest trees) by the marsh garden, are awesome living things to just look and wonder at. If you love ‘pow-pow cha’, we’ll show you the ancient Sago tree which provides the crucial ingredient for this drink. Don’t be infected with NDS (Nature Deficit Syndrome), heal yourself by coming out and enjoying Nature!

This easy walk is on level pathways with no stairs.

All kids must be accompanied by at least 1 adult guardian. Kids get info-sheets and native wildlife stickers.

More details and tickets on the facebook events page

Time: 9.30am - 11.30am
Venue: Tanglin Gate entrance of Singapore Botanic Garden (SBG)
We meet at 9.30am in the main lobby (outside the souvenir shop) of the Botany Centre building of SBG entered via the garden’s Tanglin Gate entrance opposite Gleneagles Hospital at Napier Road.
PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT GO TO THE NASSIM GATE ENTRANCE VISITOR CENTRE at Nassim Road.
Address: No.1 Cluny Rd, Singapore 259569
Cost: $13 per participant (adult or child). Free for children aged 6 years and below. Payment in cash or cheque will be collected in person at the activity. Cheque to be made payable to: ‘Cicada Tree Eco-Place’

13 Mar (Tue): Wild Critter Watch at Windsor’s Rainforest Trails

Join Cicada Tree Eco Place at this recently opened park is connected to the rainforest of our Central Catchment Nature Reserve, with 2 new trails to explore. The Squirrel Trail is a boardwalk and dirt track through freshwater swamp habitat featuring Tree Pandans, kampong plants and fruit trees where we can meet the Golden-backside Ant, Golden Web Spider and White-handed Fly.

The Drongo Trail is an elevated low canopy walkway where we should meet squirrels and tree-climbing Clouded Monitor lizards at their eye level. A lovely natural forest stream runs through the forest here, rippling with native freshwater fishes such as the Aruan snakehead, Pygmy Halfbeak, Elegant Rasbora and Saddleback Barb. This stream also hosts an incredible number of glittering dragonflies and damselflies, our natural mosquito-control brigade. Close-up observation, with a magnifying glass, of the Treehugger dragonfly, male and female, is definite.

Plus….the water-loving Gold-ringed Catsnake has been spotted here multiple times already! This is a good location to spot a roosting Colugo, which is not an easy animal to spot in the other countries in its range. The variety of wild habitats here are homes to an amazing diversity of wildlife, and it is only 15 mins away from Orchard Road.

This easy walk goes on an uneven rock path, dirt trail, and wooden boardwalks with some stairs.

All kids must be accompanied by at least 1 adult guardian. Kids get info-sheets and native wildlife stickers in our kids’ activities.

More details and tickets on the facebook events page

Time: 9.30am - 11.30am
Venue: Windsor Nature Park & Central Catchment Nature Reserve
We meet at 9.30am at the public toilet block of Windsor Nature Park’s visitor pavilion which is beside the Venus Drive car park.
Address: No.30, Venus Drive, Singapore 573858
Cost: $13 per participant (adult or child). Free for children aged 6 years and below. Payment in cash or cheque will be collected in person at the activity. Cheque to be made payable to: ‘Cicada Tree Eco-Place’