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- Sungei Buloh Anniversary Walk, 4th December 2005
- The Singapore Naturalist – tracking nature blogs in Singapore
- Updates – Nature Photography, Old Changi, Mountain bike ride
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1. Sign up for the Sg Buloh Anniversary Walk, Sun 04 Dec 2005: 10am
http://tinyurl.com/78l7q
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Join the Raffles Museum Toddycats for a Sunday morning walk at Sungei Buloh
Wetlands Reserve (SBWR) on Sunday 4th December: 10.00am.
We celebrate SBWR's 12th anniversary with a very special walk - throughout
the route, a cheery and enthusiastic team of station and group guides will
regale you with stories about the mangroves. They will introduce to you the
tree that give you charcoal and attap chee, point out tree-climbing crabs,
mudskippers, barnacles and snails from the boardwalk, and archer fish,
halfbeaks, garfish and green chromides in the river. Get a glimpse of
migratory birds form the hides and throughout, we'll keep an eye open for
the park's huge and prehistoric looking monitor lizards!
To register, send an email to: buloh@... with your full name and
the number in your group. You will receive a reply confirming your email.
The walk is suitable for children. You can take TIBS No. 925 from Kranji MRT
right to the park. Meet us at the Visitor Centre at 10.00am; park entry
charges apply ($1 adult, child $0.50). Be prepared for rain.
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2. The Singapore Naturalist – tracking nature blogs in Singapore
http://www.kickrss.com/thesingaporenaturalist
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Habitatnews is happy to introduce The Singapore Naturalist, a webpage that
tracks updates of dedicated nature blogs and mailing list newsletters in
Singapore. http://www.kickrss.com/thesingaporenaturalist
Hop over to the webpage to discover which nature blog is being updated in
Singapore. You will only see a few lines of each entry, and if your interest
is tickled, click the title or the “read more...” link to open the actual post.
Why blog?
Habitatnews adopted a blog mechanism in Feb 2004 because it allowed
information to be published more quickly and personably compared to static
webpages.
Today, at least a dozen other dedicated natural history blogs in Singapore
have emerged, sharing field notebooks, personal observations of wildlife,
photographic highlights from field trips, resource pages and amusing
anecdotes.
When are these blogs updated?
Keeping track of updates is difficult since new posts are irregularly
provided. Many blogs depend on actually going for field trips, and finding
the energy to write afterward!
Few people use RSS feeds which actually provide immediate notification of
new posts. Meanwhile WildSingapore has been industriously highlighting
updates.
An RSS feed aggregator
Recently, several new services have emerged that allow the easy compilation
and presentation of RSS feeds. Raffles Museum Toddycat Kenneth Pinto
suggested KICKRSS – the simple interface is appealing and it displays a
primer of the post, not all of it, which is ideal. Although it is still in
Development, it works well enough, so here it is!
Besides viewing the webapge, new RSS subscribers need only use the single
feed that The Singapore Naturalist provides instead of linking to 21 feeds:
http://feed.kickrss.com/thesingaporenaturalist
The majority of readers still prefer mailing list updates of course, but for
the rest, this site is just the beginning of a community sites that we hope
to setup.
Feeds included in The Singapore Naturalist (21)
Blogs (16): Bird Ecology Study Group Nature Society (Singapore), Cycling in
Singapore, Habitatnews, KLOG, Labrador Park, Meetings of the NUS
Biodiversity and Ecology Journal Club, Pulau Hantu - A celebration of marine
life, Pulau Ubin Stories, Raffles Museum News, Raffles Museum Toddycats!,
The Big Trees, The Biology Refugia, The Blue Tempeh, The Exotic Species of
Singapore, Ubin Volunteers, WildFilms. Public newsletters using Yahoo!
Groups (5): ecotax, focusubin, habitatnews, wildsingapore,
wildsingapore-weekly.
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3. Other updates
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php
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Check the webpage to read about the Photographic Exhibition by the Nature
Photographic Society (Singapore), Photos of old Changi on Webshots and
NParks' first-ever mountain bike event.
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Habitatnews: http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/index.php
Editor: N. Sivasothi (sivasothi@...),
Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, NUS
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For recent nature and environment news in Singapore, see also:
WildSingapore (http://www.wildsingapore.com/)
For internet resources on nature in Singapore, see:
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/links/
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