“We are totally not for the Cross Island Line to go through the Central Catchment Nature Reserve… It is a remnant fragment of an ancient rainforest with its incredible biodiversity. That’s something so priceless and invaluable that you can’t put a price on.”
Andrew Tay, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER, CICADA TREE ECO-PLACE
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自然环境教育组织“知了树自然生态”（Cicada Tree Eco-Place）主席赵琴音认为，空中公园将能吸引更多人接近大自然，也有助提升公众保育环境的意识。
她说：“空中公园附近的铁道走廊是不少濒危动物长期以来的栖息地，空中公园能为访客带来便利，吸引他们去探索这些周边的自然步道。
Translation – “Environmental education NGO, Cicada Tree Eco-Place’s president and co-founder, Zhao Qin Yin (Teresa Teo Guttensohn) opined that the sky park would encourage more members of the public to interact with nature and raise their awareness of conservation.
She said: “The sky park is adjacent to the Rail Corridor, which is an important long term habitat for our endangered wildlife. The elevated linear park will also bring greater convenience to visitors and attract them to explore the surrounding nature trails.”
Zaobao , 1 Sep 2019
Nature Society president says planned elevated linear park could rival New York’s High Line
Tiffany Fumiko Tay
The idea for the Bukit Timah Canal to serve as a green corridor has been around for some years, and work to spruce up the adjacent Rail Corridor may finally turn it into reality, said Dr Shawn Lum, president of the Nature Society (Singapore), yesterday.
Dr Lum, who backed the idea in a 2016 interview with The Straits Times, noted that the canal intersects with a number of large green patches, “so linking them up and adding appropriate landscaping would be really interesting”.
Ms Teresa Teo Guttensohn, president and co-founder of Cicada Tree Eco-Place, which focuses on environmental education, has seen primary school-aged children who “scream when they see a butterfly”.
Getting children to learn about flora and fauna should be “through direct interaction”, she says. “It promotes conservation of our local biodiversity, which has something to do with how we live.”
The Straits TIMES, 11 August 2019