Bukit Timah Nature Reserve

Bukit Timah Nature Reserve was one of the very first forest reserves in Singapore and was established in 1883. Despite its small size of 1.63km² (only 0.2% of Singapore’s total area), it holds about 40% of all the plants and animals in our country and has almost 900 plant species.

(source: www.wildsingapore.com and Ria Tan)

(source: www.wildsingapore.com and Ria Tan)

This Nature Reserve is located near the geographic center of our country, making it very convenient  to get there. It is also best known for having Singapore’s tallest hill, the Bukit Timah Hill, that is 163.63m tall, that allows visitors to had a bird’s-eye view over Singapore.

Through so many years of clearing the lands for various uses, many of Singapore’s native vegetation are lost and primary forests are rare. Bukit Timah nature reserves has retained one of the largest area of primary rainforest that are relatively undisturbed in our small island. This enables visitors to travel back in time and experience what Singapore was like before we became urbanised.

On 18 October 2011, this beautiful nature reserve was officially declared an ASEAN Heritage Park, marking its excellence in tropical forest conservation and deemed as part of the representative ecosystems in ASEAN. It is the second ASEAN Heritage Park in Singapore, with the first being Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.