Pasir Panjang Heritage: Guiding dates for 2010

Guiding Dates 2010

1. Battle of Pasir Panjang Commemorative Walk – Mon 15 Feb 2010
2. International Museum Day – the M.I.A. Tour, Sat 22 May 2008 (two tours).
3. Heritage Fest – Sat 24 Jul 2010 (two tours)

Sungei Buloh Anniversary Walk 2009 photos

Here are photos from some of the guides and participants of the SBWR Anniversary walk on Saturday 5th December 2009:

• Adrian Loo has a few shots of the specimen booth on Flickr
• Marcus Ng uploaded his faunal shots onto Flickr
• Tammy and Anand on Flickr
• Seah Seng Wee’s has a nice collection of photos of prominent fauna on facebook.

Lizard’s Convention by Lizard’s Convention band member, Adrian Loo

Blog posts

• The Annotated Budak features, “By the Big Bamboo River” – lots of lovely pictures including frugivores, two snakes the snakes and fiddlers. He stayed back after and describes how the “straits swelled with a rare fury. “
• Ou Yang Xiuling, another Toddycat who was there as a participant this time penned a few posts very early after walk! Here they are:
  • Sungei Buloh Anniversary Walk
  • Boardwalk for Sungei Buloh Anniversary
  • Museum specimens
• Agonising over organising – “Organising the Sungei Buloh Anniversary Walk with Google Forms,” by Otterman.

Pink-necked green piegon by Budak

Events this weekend

See Habitatnews.

• Sat 05 Dec 2009 – Sungei Buloh Anniversary Walk
• Sun 06 Dec 2009 – Raffles Museum Public Gallery open!

ICCS Pandan mangroves cleanup: Registration for Toddycats

ICCS Pandan mangroves cleanup

Pandan mangroves is a remnant strip mangrove in the south-west of Singapore. As it is not looked after, there is a trash build up that is deterimental to the site. The Raffles Museum Toddycats & the BioD Crew (NUS) and Wildlife Reserve Singapore are conducting a cleanup for the second year under the International Coastal Cleanup Singapore. This year we will be joined by some trainees from the Singapore Police Force.

The deeper parts of the inlet is a tough and dirty site to tackle, with no shelters or toilets but soft mud, lots of mosquitoes in tide pools and some snakes instead! We will work rain or shine and are restricting numbers to reduce impact.

This cleanup is not for the faint-hearted but Toddycats and the Biodiversity Crew who are up for it are invited to sign up at here:

Saturday, 12th September 2009: 7.20am – 11.00am
International Coastal Cleanup Singapore:
Pandan Mangroves

Register at: http://tinyurl.com/iccspandan2009

Photo by Kelly Ong

Itinerary:

• 0710 – bus pick up at NUS
• 0720 – bus pick-up from Dover MRT (one stop west after Buona Vista)
• 0800 – reach Pandan mangroves bus stop; distribute into sub-groups, apply insect repellent, collect gloves, data cards and trash bags.
• 0810 – Safety Briefing, identification of the Trash Weighing Point (TWP), wet weather plan (carry on unless lightning threat)
• 0820 – Cleanup begins.
• 0845 – Loading teams start moving trash to the TWP
• 1000 – clean-up ends, data collation beings, weighing completed while participants evaluate the situation at Pandan.
• 1015 – participants clean themselves up – note no washing point, so bring a bottle of tap water and a change of footwear.
• 1045 – Pack dirty gloves to bring back wash, dry and return.
• 1100 – Bus returns to Clementi and then NUS.

What we will provide:

1. Transport to site.
2. Gloves.
3. Trash bags.
4. Weighing scales.

What you should bring:

1. Booties or covered shoes with hard soles.
2. Water bottle (at least one litre of water).
3. A snack to munch on after the cleanup, especially if you didn’t have time for breakfast!
4. Hat.
5. Insect repellent
6. Raincoat/ponco (we’ll carry on working in the rain)
7. Towel in a bag – to wipe off any sand and mud off you.
8. A light pair of long pants will help protect your legs from insect bites if you tend to get bitten, as well as from the debris.
9. A suggestion – dry fit clothes are suitable. If you prefer cotton, a change of t-shirt will come in handy after a sweaty workout.

Transport:
Registered participants can meet us at either

1. the NUS bus stop outside Science Drive 1 (7.10am; meet Otterman) or
2. Dover MRT Station bus stop on side of Singapore Polytechnic (heading west) (7.20am; meet Kelly Ong).

7.10am Pick Up Point – Meet N. Sivasothi a.k.a. Otterman

7.20am Pick up Point – Meet Kelly Ong.

Cleanup location concentration

Lim Chu Kang cleanup, 8th August 2009

Hi everyone,

the ICCS team are organising an August cleanup of our precious Lim Chu Kang mangroves. This complements the ICCS cleanups as the trash load there is quite high.

The location is at Lim Chu Kang Road end. Transport from NUS is provided.

If you want to battle marine debris on the National day weekend, sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/lck-08aug2009.

Cheerio!

Siva