As you can read, Singapore tries to do their best to save as many possible species from extinction. For example in order to save the coastal horseshoe crab conservationists improved the mangroves.

An attempt to save the butterflies resulted in the Butterfly Trail at Orchard project in 2010. This is a 4km planted fruit and flower track from the Botanic Gardens to Fort Canning. Since the start the number of species increased from 20 to 62.

The annual Festival of Biodiversity is a way to connect people to conservation and provide information about the Singaporean species. Last year the government announced during this festival to help 46 plant and animal species for the next 10 years that are threatened with extinction.

Festival of Biodiversity – Source: Festival of Biodiversity

The development of nature reserves and national parks has been very beneficial for the biodiversity. Although, the relative size of all the reserves and parks is still quite small, it contains a lot of flora and fauna. For example only the Nee Soon Reserve contains 25% of the remaining freshwater crab and fish. In order to protect those parks the government has founded several nature conservation laws and fines can go up to $50.000 or imprisonment of up to six months. This has paid off, because it is known that some animals have migrated back to Singapore after considered national extinct, for example the Malayan Porcupine.

As a volunteer you can also support conservation in Singapore. If you see a particular threatened or considered national extinct species you can tell it to ecologyasia.com. A picture is preferred and some other details about the animal or plant. The organisation will forward your recording to the National University of Singapore, National Parks Board and the Nature society of Singapore.

The email should be addressed to sightings@ecologyasia.com