Wildlife-watching guided walk at Rifle Range Nature Park by Cicada Tree Eco-Place to celebrate World Wildlife Day.
Date and time:
SATURDAY 4th March 2023.
9.00am to 11.30am.
Venue:
Rifle Range Nature Park
Description:
The 3rd of March is World Wildlife Day. It is a United Nations international day to celebrate our world’s amazing wild animals and plants, and their importance to our lives and to our planet. The theme for this year is ‘Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation’. We Human Beings rely on wildlife and biodiversity-based resources – Nature – for all our needs, from food to medicines and fuel. A sustainable partnership between Man and Nature is crucial.
Singapore may be a tiny island but it still has an amazing diversity of wildlife found living in its remnant rainforest, mangrove, marshland, and in the surrounding sea. Globally endangered wildlife living here include the Sunda Pangolin, Straw-headed Bulbul, Dugong, and the Hawksbill Sea Turtle.
To celebrate our wildlife and wild places, we visit the newly opened Rifle Range Nature Park to look for wildlife both big and small. Here, pathways wind though forested hills, stream and marshland which provide protected homes for wildlife. This guided walk will involve some easy climbing up a hill to a look-out point.
Please note:
This walk is free of charge but participants will be requested to give a donation of any amount to the local animal welfare charity ACRES (Animal Concerns Research and Education Society).
To register, please email names of adult/kid participant/s to Andrew at: andrewtay.sg@gmail.com
Details and instructions will be provided upon registration.
Love MacRitchie Forest nature-guided walk by Cicada Tree Eco-Place in celebration of Singapore World Water Day 2023
Date and time:
SUNDAY 12th March 2023
9.00am to 11.30am
Venue: MacRitchie Forest
Description
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 streams 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 explore via the earth track through the rainforest, and onto the boardwalk along the reservoir’s edge, by-passing lush swamp-forest habitat home to unique native freshwater critters, such as the Treehugger, Dwarf Snakehead and Forest Softshell, their survival depending on a source of unpolluted freshwater. Cicada trees, monkey cups and lianas are some of the amazing flora that still thrive in these cool forests, helping to balance our climate and filter the very air we breathe.
Cost: S$13 per participant. Kids age 8 years and below of participants tag along for free.
To register, please email names of adult/child participant/s to Andrew at: andrewtay.sg@gmail.com
Details and instructions will be provided upon registration.
Urban organic food-gardening workshop with vegan lunch at Kampung Senang holistic health centre, by Cicada Tree Eco-Place.
Date and time:
SATURDAY 18th March 2023
9.30am to 1.00pm
Venue:
Kampung Senang’s centre in Tampines
Description:
This workshop includes:
- guided tour of an urban organic farm and high-rise gardening
- how to organically grow tropical veg, herbs and spices
- learn about soil mixtures, organic fertilisers and composting
- plant propagation methods
- vegan set lunch with salad and soup
- veg seeds and herb cuttings for participants to adopt
Cost: S$40 per adult. S$20 per child.
To register, please email names of adult/child participant/s to Andrew at: andrewtay.sg@gmail.com
Details and instructions will be provided upon registration.
Kampung Senang Charity and Education Foundation is an eco-conscious charity providing holistic, compassion-focused care programmes and activities to promote well-being, good health and happiness – www.kampungsenang.org
