Habitatnews 2004-15: Thursday 9th December 2004
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Nature-related news for the busy Singaporean.
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php
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1. Screening of "Living with Animals" film tomorrow
2. Free shuttle to Reflections At Bukit Chandu
3. President NSS, Geh Min is an NMP
4. The Jane Goodall orchid

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[1] Screening of "Living with Animals" film
at Geylang East Library.
Friday 10th December 2004: 7pm
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Geylang East Library is near ALunied MRT. See the roadmap at:
http://tinyurl.com/5tds3

The film will be introduced by Nirmal Ghosh.

"Nirmal is a Trustee of The Corbett Foundation, a member of the
Steering Committee of Project Elephant chaired by India's Minister of
Environment and Forests, and a member of the managing committee of
Friends of the Doon. He spends much of his time in the field working
on wildlife issues."

Thanks to Andrew Tay for the SMS alert.

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[2] Free shuttle service to Reflections at Bukit Chandu
on Saturdays 11 & 18 Dec and 1st Jan.
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Pick-up timings each day
HarbourFront MRT: 9.30am, 11.30am & 2.30pm.
RBC Carpark C: 11.00am, 2.00pm & 4.45pm.

Dates:
Saturday, 11th December 2004,
Saturday, 18th December 2004,
Saturday, 1st January 2005.

See: http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php

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[3] NSS President Geh Min appointed NMP
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What are some specific environmental issues you will raise?

"Protection of our marine areas. We don't have as much as Indonesia or
the Philippines but what we have in terms of diversity of corals is
five times that of the Caribbean and 25 times the Mediterranean."

"But this is not being protected in any systematic way. None of our
marine areas is a designated nature reserve. Instead the priorities
are shipping, the port, land reclamation and now using the sea as a
landfill. All this is important but it should not be done at the
expense of our marine biodiversity."

Read the interview at: http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php

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[4] The Jane Goodall orchid
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A new orchid has been named Spathoglottis Jane Goodall after the
reknown ethologist and consrvationist.

A ceremony was held in Burkill Hall at the Singapore Botanic Gardens
on Monday 6th December 2004. She is the first biologist after whom
an orchid has been named at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

She was in Singapore for the Biology in Asia conference.
See photos and full story at:
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php

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