Categories
- ACRES
- activism
- Animals
- Biodiversity
- Books
- Bukit Brown
- Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
- Cambridge
- Camping
- Changi
- Chek Jawa
- Cicada Tree
- climate change
- climbing
- Conservation
- Consumerism
- Coral reefs
- Cyrene Reef
- Dairy Farm
- deforestation
- Earth day
- Earth Summit
- East Coast Park
- Ecolit
- Ecology
- Education
- environment
- Environmentalism
- extinction
- Fieldwork
- geology
- Gerik
- Governance
- Guiding
- Hiking
- ICCS
- inspiration
- JGIS
- Labrador Nature Reserve
- Lim Chu Kang
- Macritchie
- Malaysia
- Marine environment
- Marine trash
- Mega Marine Survey
- NParks
- NUS
- outdoors
- Outreach
- Pasir Ris Park
- Plants
- Pulau Semakau
- Pulau Ubin
- Rimba
- RMBR
- Serangoon reservoir
- Singapore
- St John's Island
- Sungei Buloh
- sustainable development
- Tanah Merah
- Tanjong Rimau
- Team Seagrass
- TMSI
- Toddycats
- UK
- UN
- UNEP
- Walks of Life
- WED
- wildlife
- writing
- WWD
- Year-round cleanup
- Zoo
-
Recent Posts
- I’ve moved!
- The last of the Greater Patagonian Trail update.
- Part 3: Puerto Ibañez to El Chaltén – Heading south in search of Mount Fitzroy
- Part 2: El Bolsón to Puerto Ibañez – hitching down the Carretera Austral, Patagonia proper & experiencing English weather
- Part 1: Coñaripe to El Bolsón – when we came close to starvation and started changing our plans
- The end of our expedition
- A month on trail
- Rekindling natural curiosities
Tag Archives: Bukit Brown
Putting a value on the invaluable
Conservation, which I take to mean saving species from extinction (in the wild?), in its earliest earliest form involved protecting wild areas, usually from people (e.g. Yellowstone National Park). As we realised some really amazing and magnificent species were declining, we … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Tagged Biodiversity, Bukit Brown, Conservation, ecosystem services, valuing nature
1 Comment
Insights into the history of conservation in Singapore
I was very very glad to have been able to attend Professor Leo Tan’s talk entitled “You Live Your Belief” last Wednesday, 25 April. It was hosted at the NUS Shaw Foundation Alumni House Auditorium as it was actually an alumni … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Talk
Tagged Biodiversity, Bukit Brown, Chek Jawa, Conservation, Education, Labrador Nature Reserve, NParks, NUS, Outreach, Pulau Semakau, Pulau Ubin, RMBR, Sungei Buloh
4 Comments
Yet another place lost to development :/
This post is long overdue, but it still must be posted, I guess. There are lots of blogposts, websites out there about Bukit Brown, so information is not lacking. I went down to visit Bukit Brown over two Saturdays, 3 … Continue reading
Nature rambles. 