Start at Pang Sua Woodland (located behind Junction 10 mall), stroll along Pang Sua Canal and down the Rail Corridor trail to end at Singapore Quarry pond (near to Rail Mall). Pick up litter along the way. Tongs and trash bags provided. Bring your own reusable gloves.
Event is FOC. Open to public, registration required. Cleanup is organised by Cicada Tree Eco-Place, and led by volunteers Keith and Teresa.
Date: Sat 19 March 2022
Time: 4pm to 5.30pm
Group size: 10pax (two groups of 5pax)
To register, please email: contactctep@gmail.com
World Wetlands Day, celebrated annually on 2 February, aims to raise global awareness about the vital role of wetlands for people and planet. A call to take action for wetlands is the focus of this year’s campaign. It’s an appeal to invest financial, human and political capital to save the world’s wetlands from disappearing and to restore those we have degraded. 2 February 2022 is the first year that World Wetlands Day will be observed as a United Nations international day, following its adoption by the General Assembly on 30 August 2021.
Singapore’s too has wetlands! Our wetlands are a biological treasure – a home for a large variety of flora and fauna waiting to be discovered.
Sungei Buloh is the most well known of Singapore’s wetlands. Home to some of the world’s rarest mangroves, the Sungei BUloh Wetland Reserve is an internationally recognized site of importance. The park is a stopover point for migratory birds like the pacific gold plover and the Asian dowitcher.
But Sungei Buloh is not the only wetlands you can visit in Singapore. You can visit the wetlands in Jurong Lake Gardens, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Pasir Ris Park, Pulau Ubin, St John’s Island, Kranji Marshes or Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, to admire nature’s wonders and experience this unique habitat.
For further information: • Website: www.worldwetlandsday.org • Hashtags: #WorldWetlandsDay #ActforWetlands • Twitter Handles: @RamsarConv @martharojasu1 (Secretary General of Convention on Wetlands) • FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/RamsarConventionOnWetlands • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ramsar_convention_on_wetlands/
🌳🌳🌳 We planted 30 trees together during the New Year tree planting activity by Cicada Tree Eco-Place in support of One Million Trees by NParks!
Date: Thu 13 Jan 2022
Time: 9am to 10am
Venue: Minden Stateland near to Singapore Botanic Gardens
Meeting Point: TBA
Capacity: Up to 6 groups of 4pax
SMMs strictly apply. All participants must be fully vaccinated. Children age 6 yrs and above and must be accompanied by adult and remain with family group. Masks to be worn at all times and during tree planting activities. Each group of 4 pax will be guided by a staff member.
Last Sunday (19 Dec), Cicada Tree Eco-Place volunteers led three separate coastal clean up events at East Coast Park, Pulau Ubin and Changi Beach Park respectively.
The beach clean-ups were in collaboration with Sport Singapore, in support of Coastal Cleanup Campaign (Sep 2021 to Mar 2022). We were joined by friends, family, and members of the public who all wanted to do something for our marine habitat.
Litter picking in action!
Armed with tongs and gloves, our participants scoured the shore for pieces of litter. At Changi Beach Park, the cleanup took place around the low tide timing in the evening, allowing participants to not only uncover more litter but admire the interesting wildlife that call the intertidal space their home. Some of the creatures spotted include the sea cucumber, anemone, hermit crab, and a washed-up jellyfish!
Common litter found include cigarette butts, plastic bags, food wrappers, straws and fishing lines. These marine litter are a threat to the wildlife residing in the ocean and shore. You can find out more about the impacts of marine litter here: http://www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/concepts/litter.htm
At the end of the session, our participants were tired, but very happy with the positive impact they had made. Each group had collected at least 10kg worth of trash. Well done everyone!
A highlight find was probably this foam mattress, which our participants tried to squeeze water out of.
Our proud participants with their outcome of one hour of hard work:
