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News
2003
Recently
in Habitatnews
International
Coastal Cleanup Singapore
2003 -
Mangrove 13 Sep - Beaches 20, 21 Sep 2003.
The Hopea sangal tree: Sculpture Symposium,
Public
invitation: Sun 14 Sep
2003 -
Daily
progress.
Nature Society (Singapore)'s "Trees
provide"
series of posters.
Nature
Day 2003 -
Nature at Our Doorstep (TV12:
Thursdays, 9.30pm)
- Biodiversity
of SIngapore Symposium 2003
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Sembawang
Heritage June 2003
- WildSingapore
launched -
SARS and the killing of strays: Animal
welfare groups contest the reasons and
method
- Fossil fern found: Dipteris conjugata
on Pulau Sarimbun, 19
Apr 2003 -
Fun & games at Ubin Daze 2003, 18-20
April 2003.
URA
Draft Master Plan
2003.
On exhibition at the URA Gallery - North Region
from 27 Mar - 16 Apr. Will be followed by
North-East (Apr-May), East (May-Jun), Central
(Jun-Jly). North Region launch, press
release, 27 March
2003 - West
Region launch, speech
by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, 28 Feb
2003 -
Draft Master Plan 2003 launch, press
release, 28 Feb
2003.
URA/NParks Draft
Concept Plans - speech by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan,
22
Jan 2003.
Subject Group
reports and the URA/NParks responses can be
downloaded
here.
2002
20 November -
The grand old Hopea sangal: thought to be
extinct, rediscovered in September 2002, but
has
now been cut down!
21 November - Launch of Chua Ee Kiam's latest book,
"Chek
Jawa: Discovering Singapore's
biodiversity".
19 November - 2002 BP Singapore Science Centre
Guidebooks launched: Urban
Creatures & Liverworts and Hornworts of
Singapore.
22 October - URA
Parks & Waterbodies
Plan:
feedback closed, but exhibition open to
year-end.
28 September - Nature
Society (Singapore)'s Public Forum on URA Parks
& Waterbodies
Plan - all
are invited!
27 September - Heritage webpages newly established
- A
Changi Heritage,
A
Kent Ridge
Heritage.
23 September - Nominate
a Heritage tree
- nominate a tree with cultural, historical or
biodiversity significance!
14 & 21 September - International
Coastal Cleanup Singapore
2002
23 July 2002 - Minister of State Vivian
Balakrishnan launches The
Parks & Waterbodies Plan and Identity Plan
Exhibition.
1 July 2002 - the Ministry for the Environment
(ENV) launched a new statutory board, the
National
Environment Agency
(NEA). ENV will focus on setting long-term policy
directions while NEA will implement and operate
environmental policies.
Ubin & Chek Jawa reprieve, 14
Jan 02.
2001
Feedback
invited - Draft Singapore Green Plan 2012,
10
Nov 01.
Two new nature reserves, 10
Nov 01.
The Raffles Museum opens her doors once again -
launch of the Public Gallery, 15
Jun 01.
Mangroves of Singapore guidebooks now online,
17
Apr 01.
Satellite image of Singapore from CRISP.
Apr
01.
2000
WWF Living
Planet Report launched, 20
Oct 00
[download].
NSS' new and first lady president, 4
Aug 00
Noah's Ark Lodge loses tender bid, 16
Jun 00
Second Smooth Otter cub at Sungei Buloh Nature
Park! 20
May 00
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Comments
Chek Jawa
and Pulau Ubin, what does your heart tell you? by
Tan Choon Ming, 6th
August 2001
Comments on the
satellite image of Singapore, by B. Y. Tang,
23rd
April 2001.
Fishing in our
reservoirs - for better or for worse", by N.
Sivasothi, 18th
December 2000.
Fishing in three central reservoirs may have
adverse ecological impact, by B. Y. Tang,
20th
December 2000
NSS' Nature Day 2000 - impressions,
1st
May 2000
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Activities
Jan - Mar
Lower Peirce Boardwalk for NSS
members, 16th
March 2002.
Labrador Park Rocky Shore for NSS
members, 10th
February 2001
Mar - Jun
Singapore Library Festival, April
2002.
Eco@Woodlands series, April
- September 2002.
Museum Fest 2002 - Suntec City, 24
- 26 May 2002.
Nature Day 2002, 25
May - 27 May.
Briskwalks - MacRitchie to Bukit Timah in 2 hours.
Sundays
in June 2002.
Jul-Sep
Biking in Ubin - Sundays
in July 2002.
Kent Ridge, a heritage, for NUS Staff and Habitat Group,
August
2002.
11th International Coastal Cleanup Singapore,
September
2002.
Oct - Dec
A Sunday morning walk at Sungei Buloh Nature Park for
NSS
members, December
2001, 2002.
Slide
talks & Seminars
The newsletter
includes notices of relevant slidetalks but you can bookmark
these sources: The Nature
Society (Singapore) Webpage
does coordinate public talks which would be usually held at
the Ang Mo Kio Community Library, at 7.15pm.
Meetings
of the Biodiversity and Ecology Journal
Club at held at
office hours at the National University of Singapore - some
of these are semi-technical in nature, and interesting
discussions do take place. The Sungei Buloh Nature Park does
schedule a public talk on the first Saturday of the month,
and this would be listed at the SBNP
Calendar of Events.
Some talks are provided with
webpage on this site:
"The Ecology and Feeding Behavior of Crustacean-eating
Snakes (Homalopsinae) in the Mangrove Forests of
Singapore.".24th
August 2001
"Raffles Museum: A story of natural history exploration in
Southeast Asia", 30th
September 2000
"Crabby tales from the mangrove" 8th
August 2000
"24 hours beneath a rainbow sea". 19th
July 2000
Nature &
conservation in Hong Kong, 21st
- 27th June 2000
Events
Nature Day 2001 @
Bugis Junction, 5th
to 7th May 2001
Faith & Nature Workshop, 18th
March 2001
Operasi Soedarsono Batam 2000, submissions
by 14th August 2000
Photo exhibition on Nature & Conservation in Hong Kong,
21st
- 27th June 2000
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