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[*Free!] Saturday 8 Jun 10:00am-12:00pm Going Coconuts on Ubin! Organised by Cicada Tree Eco-Place. Walk & Talk led by: Teresa Teo Guttensohn.

Can you imagine Pulau Ubin without the swaying Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera)? If you love this graceful and amazing native tree of life, meet Teresa at the 椰子 (Yēzi) drink stall at Ubin main village. Refresh yourself with a delicious, fresh kelapa, and support the islanders at the same time. Next, we will head to a coconut grove to check out the wildlife that lives on or around the palms. Thereafter, we will head indoors to discover the importance and ethnobotanical uses of தேங்காய் (Tēṅkāy) in our local and regional cultures. Participants will be treated to healthy tea and fragrant coconut snacks.

Wet weather: This is a rain or shine event. In case of thunderstorm, we will conduct the activity indoors.

Meeting venue: Seminar Room, Ubin Volunteer Hub

Registration is required: https://forms.gle/eP48KAs4K82EtGUF8

Targeted maximum number of pax (participants): 30 pax

You will be notified via mobile and/email if successfully enrolled.

You will be notified via mobile and/email if successfully enrolled. *2-way boat ride at your own cost.

Love Chek Jawa walks by Cicada Tree Eco-Place

Walk brief:

Chek Jawa, at the south-eastern tip of Pulau Ubin, is a treasure to visit. It’s diversity of wild ecosystems – rare rocky shore, rich sea grass meadows, ancient coral rubble, lush mangrove and coastal forests – are sanctuary to amazing biodiversity. Birdlife International identified it as an Important Bird Area, as it supports significant numbers of both resident and migratory bird species. In the year 2000, the announcement that Chek Jawa was to be destroyed by land reclamation activated nature lovers who got together to ask the government for its conservation. The following year, the authorities announced that reclamation of Chek Jawa will be deferred for the next 10 years. We visit to keep Chek Jawa close to our hearts, for it to be protected and conserved forever. Join us to learn why Chek Jawa should be gazetted as a Nature Reserve.

Charge: Free for the guided tour. Participants only need to pay for their own bumboat rides, and the minibus return ride to Chek Jawa ($6 per pax).

Capacity: 15 pax per walk

Organised by: Cicada Tree Eco-Place 

Contact person: Andrew Tay, nature educator

Wet weather plan: This is a rain or shine event.

Registration is required.

Note: More details will be given to confirmed participants.

Sign up:

Saturday 8 Jun 2:00pm-5:00pm

https://forms.gle/JwNZNUmGDonP9YwM6

Saturday 15 Jun 10:00am-1:00pm 

https://forms.gle/mAXFdPY4QyjhXPoL7

Sunday 23 Jun 9:00am-12:00pm

https://forms.gle/TSpoKJpJjQqJHwCp9

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Date and Time:
Saturday, March 23, 2024
9:00 am to 11:30 am
Venue: MacRitchie Forest

Our priceless Central Catchment Nature Reserve (CCNR) consists of the reservoirs of MacRitchie, Lower & Upper Peirce, Lower & Upper Seletar, and the crucial, remnant rainforests that surround them. The rainforest here creates rain and catches rainfall, storing it in its ecosystem, and drop by drop form rivulets slowly winding through the forest and into our reservoirs. So, in Singapore, we are also drinking water that has been made and filtered by its rainforests! We will explore via the elevated boardwalk along the reservoir’s edge shaded by the rainforest canopy and by-passing lush swamp-forest habitat home to unique native freshwater critters, such as the Treehugger, Dwarf Snakehead and Forest Softshell. Like us, their very survival dependant on a source of unpolluted freshwater. Cicada tree, swamp yam and monkey cups are just three of our unique native aquatic flora that still thrive in our remaining freshwater swamp-forests, helping to cleanse our water, cool our climate and filter the very air we breathe.

Other Details:

• Cost: $5 per adult/child (All proceeds support CTEP’s environmental education projects and programs).
• To register, please email participant(s) name(s), age(s) of child participant(s), and mobile number to: andrewtay.sg@gmail.com.
• Further details will be provided to confirmed participants.