Contents

1. 10th International Coastal Cleanup Singapore
2. PhD student requests interviews - Environmental History
   & Cultural Ecology of Singapore
3. Undergraduate project: valuation study of Chek Jawa

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---> [1] 10th International Coastal Cleanup Singapore
         unedited photo galleries out!
<http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/iccs/galleries/>
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The annual event saw more than 1,500 volunteers visit the beaches
and mangroves in an effort to not only clean the coastline, but also
to categorise and count the trash.

With a plethora of digital cameras, the galleries were up
almost immediately at:  <http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/iccs/galleries/>

The mangrove cleanup was coordinated by the Raffles Museum of
Biodiversity Research, was held a week earlier to catch the low tide,
saw a group of more than 300 struggle to the site and attempt the
cleanup at the Buloh-Kranji mangroves.

In approximately 90 minutes, 2.7 tonnes of trash was removed, of
which 90% was plastic, 11.5% of which was from 2,637 straws!
See data summaries at <http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/iccs/>

As the students walked out, a stream had to be crossed yet
data cards had to be kept dry. As the tide rose further, canoes
and boats transferred out the trash to the park for removal.

The beach cleanup coordinated by the Nature Society (Singapore) saw
approximately 1,300 people cleanup beaches in what turned out to be
a blazing sun. See <http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/iccs/beach/>

As the last few data cards come in, the combined data will be
forwarded by the Nature Society (Singapore) to the Ocean
Conservancy in Washington, for global action. At a national
level, analysis will be followed by recommendations and education
programmes.

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---> [2] Environmental History & Cultural Ecology
         of Singapore
<http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/subra.html>
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V. Subra is working towards a Ph.D in American Studies at the
University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. In Singapore
for the next 5 weeks to conduct field research, he can be contacted
at 587-3759 (home) or 9648-6553 (mobile).

He would like to interview almost everyone: "Government officials,
Government agencies, Non-Governmental Organisations, professional
groups, the media, the arts, politicians and organisations, women
and other interest groups as well as members of the general public,
selected from different groups having different interests, namely,
age, gender, class, ethnicity, location, employment, income level.

He has already begun, so give him a call and he will arrange to
meet and chat with you.

You can read details of his topics at:
<http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/subra.html>

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---> [3] Undergraduate project: valuation study of Chek Jawa
<http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/chekjawa/chekjawavalue.rtf>
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Ray TAY Tuan Hin is a 3rd year economics major in the NUS Faculty of
Arts and Social Science. He is currently doing an Independent Study
Module on the valuation of environmental goods such as patches of
undeveloped land and hopes to apply the valuation method on Chek Jawa.

He seeks your help in filling up a survey questionnaire to attempt an
estimate of people's willingness to pay to Chek Jawa.

If you have visited Chek Jawa, please fill in the questionnaire below
or at: <http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/news/chekjawa/chekjawavalue.rtf>
and return to Ray Tay at <art90142@...> by the 24th of Sept.
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