Biodiversity for kids during the December school holidays

Exciting nature activities specially for kids are lined up for the coming school holidays! For the first time in more than a decade, Ubin Day is back! LOTS of kampung fun especially for kids and the family at Pulau Ubin.

And MORE fun ways to discover and enjoy Singapore's biodiversity! Activities include free nature camps, demo of traditional prawn farming. Learn about our macaques, birds, and other plants and animals. Also free walks at Pasir Ris mangroves, nature hikes near Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Southern Ridges, Bishan riverplains.

Biodiversity for kids during the September school holidays

Exciting nature activities specially for kids are lined up for the coming school holidays! Lots of fun ways to discover and enjoy Singapore's biodiversity!

Activities include free nature camps, demo of traditional prawn farming, art workshops. Learn about butterflies and moths and pond life. Also walks at Pasir Ris mangroves, MacRitchie forest, Southern Ridges, Bishan Park and MORE!

Biodiversity for kids during the June school holidays

Exciting nature activities specially for kids are lined up for the coming school holidays! Lots of fun ways to discover and enjoy Singapore's biodiversity!

Activities include free nature camps, demo of traditional prawn farming, art workshops. Learn about dragonflies, our wild night creatures. Also walks at Pasir Ris mangroves, Chek Jawa boardwalk, Southern Ridges, Bishan riverplains.

22 Apr: Earth Day in Singapore

Lots of biodiversity activities to celebrate Earth Day in Singapore this weekend!

the earth day network

Biodiversity for kids during the March school holidays

Exciting nature activities specially for kids are lined up for the coming school holidays! Lots of fun ways to discover and enjoy Singapore's biodiversity!

Exciting events include free art workshops for kids, family birdwatching trips, photography tour for students only, demonstration of a prawn farm, Ecolife Tour for Families. Also kids' workshops about night creatures, palm trees, dragonflies and more!

Biodiversity for kids during the December school holidays

Exciting nature activities specially for kids are lined up for the December school holidays! Lots of fun ways to discover and enjoy Singapore's biodiversity!

Exciting events include the launch of Neil Humphreys' "Secrets of the Swamp"; free Chek Jawa boardwalk tour; demonstration of traditional prawn farming at Sungei Buloh; a chance to rescue horseshoe crabs; fun with forest wildlife; dragonflies, carnivorous plants and MORE!

13-14 Jul (Sat, Sun) at VivoCity: Festival of Biodiversity 2013

Come for the massive Festival of Biodiversity! The passionate nature community comes together to share the mind-boggling biodiversity from our forests to seashores, even our backyards and parks!

Be bedazzled by butterflies and birds, awed by trees and seagrasses, tickle your curiousity with crabs and colugos. Singapore is wilder that you might imagine. Find out more about our biodiversity and what you can do to make a difference!

Here's some of fun that is planned for the Festival!

Biodiversity for kids during the June school holidays

Exciting nature activities specially for kids are lined up for June school holidays! Lots of fun ways to discover and enjoy Singapore's biodiversity!

Volunteer the whole family to help in forest conservation or in rescuing horseshoe crabs. Lots of free activities including art workshops, guided walk at Chek Jawa boardwalk, see how traditional prawn farming was done, get a closer look and understanding of our wild monkeys. Or join workshops on owls, butterflies, pond life and lots more!

A crab found only in Singapore!

The Singapore Freshwater Crab is one of the three known species of crabs endemic to Singapore. This means that it is unique to Singapore and not found anywhere else in the world!

The Singapore Freshwater Crab, found only in Singapore.

Here's more about these crabs and the work that has been done and needs to be done to protect them.

Wild about Nature: A look at nature groups in Singapore

Thanks to Lea Wee, there's a great feature of active nature groups in today's Sunday Times! With a "mission to celebrate and conserve what is left of the rich and diverse wildlife here, despite intense urbanisation."

The article is a great introduction to the current nature scene, including some of the most active groups and their work. You CAN be a part of this too!

22 Apr: Earth Day in Singapore

Lots of biodiversity activities to celebrate Earth Day in Singapore this weekend!

What is Earth Day?
There's often much confusion about Earth Day.

2 Feb (Sat): World Wetlands Day - Wetlands take care of water

2 Feb is World Wetlands Day and in 2013, the theme is "Wetlands take care of water"

Snippet from "Some Dry Facts about Wetlands"
on the Ramsar site.

In Singapore, celebrate this weekend with kids' and family activities at Sungei Buloh and Kranji Marsh!

'Panda' of the mangroves discovered, Neil Humphreys writes on Chek Jawa and more

The ‘Panda’ of Mangroves, Bruguiera hainesii, has been found in the mangroves of Pulau Tekong! Here's more by the person who found them, Koh Kwan Siong of NParks.

Also an article by renowned author Neil Humphreys about his daughter's joy at Chek Jawa, work by volunteers at Pasir Ris, how creativity resulted in a dragonfly habitat and reviews of two upcoming nature books. All in the latest issue of My Green Space Oct-Dec 2012 a newsletter of the National Parks Board.

Northern Expedition of the Mega Marine Survey finds awesome marine life in Singapore

Singapore's first ever comprehensive look at our marine biodiversity has launched a massive Northern Expedition in October. What has the Mega Marine Survey found since it first started in 2010?

Volunteers busy sorting through finds at the Northern Expedition.

Over thirty new records have been found from Singapore and the region, including the Laternula, a species of lantern shells which may have bioactive compounds and chemicals that can aid medical science.

Exotic parrots and fishes; and feather star-crab

These introduced birds are pretty, but what impact do they have on our native wildlife?

These and other fascinating articles have been uploaded on Nature in Singapore of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research.

Singapore crab featured among the world's 100 most threatened lifeforms

A freshwater crab found only in Singapore is featured among the 100 most threatened lifeforms on the planet. Conservationists fear these organisms will be allowed to die out because none of these species provide humans with obvious benefits.

“All the species listed are unique and irreplaceable. If they vanish, no amount of money can bring them back,” said a co-author of the report. Their declines have mainly been caused by humans, but in almost all cases scientists believe their extinction can still be avoided if conservation efforts are specifically focused.

15 Sep (Sat): Prof Leo Tan speaks on "Greening the Red Dot - Creating a Legacy for the future?"

Singapore is a tiny island with more than 5 million people and no natural resources. So what is the value of nature and biodiversity to the socio-economic progress of this red dot? We are often reminded that it is business/finance and technology that drives the economy, not natural history! Is this really the case?

This seminar examines some aspects of the need or otherwise for nature and the environment in keeping our island salubrious and liveable as we chase our economic goals. How important or sustainable are the tiny pockets of natural forest, coastal mangroves, coral reefs and parks for us now and as a legacy for our future generations?

Biodiversity for kids during the September holidays!

Exciting nature activities for kids are lined up for the September school holidays! Lots of fun ways to discover and enjoy Singapore's biodiversity!

On 1 Sep (Sat), explore Pasir Ris mangrove boardwalk
on the FREE walk by the Naked Hermit Crabs

Learn about wild boar and our night creatures, check out boardwalks at Chek Jawa, Pasir Ris, Sungei Buloh, visit trails at Bukit Brown, MacRitchie, Southern Ridges, and lots of other workshops and activities. Here's highlights of some of the many exciting nature events for kids during the school holidays. Many for free!

Singapore got wildlife meh?

A wonderful video clip for teachers and others to use in raising awareness of Singapore's biodiversity and answering that typical question we often hear.

Lovingly put together by David Tan, Jocelyne Sze and Eunice Soh, it features clips and photos shared by local nature lovers and covers the amazing biodiversity found in Singapore's land and sea.

Singapore's living forests, reefs, seashores and more!

What lives in our forests? The latest issue of My Green Space, published by NParks, shares more on this and other fascinating work done for Singapore's biodiversity.

What happens during the quiet orgy in our waters when Singapore's corals mass spawn? Also more about Singapore's first marine expedition and the fabulous new book on Singapore's caterpillars!