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Coastal Cleanup - NUS recruiting its team today; Remember Chek Jawa film this Sat; Wireless @ Sg Buloh; New book on seashores; Coastal Cleanup video on the web
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1. ICCS – NUS recruits today for the event on Sat 15 Sep 2007.
2. Remember Chek Jawa at the Asian Film Symposium.
3. Wireless at Sungei Buloh
4. New book on seashores, “Remember Chek Jawa”.
5. International Coastal Cleanup Singapore on Google video
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International Coastal Cleanup Singapore (15 Sep 2007) – Recruitment in NUS
http://tinyurl.com/ysb8wu
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NUS Staff and students are urged to respond to this call to participate in the
annual International Coastal Cleanup Singapore on Saturday 15th September 2007.
Registration is limited so please hurry!
For details, see Habitatnews () or register at the Team NUS webpage:
http://tinyurl.com/ysb8wu
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Remember Chek Jawa - Asian Film Symposium, 10 Sep 2007: 6.30pm
http://rememberchekjawa.wordpress.com/
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In the mdst of the many efforts that eventually contributed to the deferment
of reclamation at Chek Jawa, independent film maker Eric Lim found himself
drawn to one group a bunch of ordinary, urban Singaporeans rallying to a
call to help in a tiring, muddy and incomprehensible biodiversity survey, at
a time when all hope had been lost.
Shot between 2001 - 2004, Eric made "Remember Chek Jawa," to chronicle the
volunteer survey and also provides a brief glimpse of some of the activities
that led to deferment of reclamation at Chek Jawa.
The film is the Closing Film at Asian Film Symposium and you can catch the
movie on Saturday, 10th September 2007: 7.30pm at Cathay's Picturehouse.
Visit the film webpage for the trailer, background and link to ticket
purchase! http://rememberchekjawa.wordpress.com/
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Wireless @ Sungei Buloh
http://tinyurl.com/3avgzw
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Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve has wireless. Lim Cheng Puay and I tried it
out on the morning of the launch and were pleased with the performance. We
did imagine ourselves writing papers amidst the ambience of the mangroves
but realised we hardly spend time there relaxing, its usually to plant
mangrove trees, clear marine trash or engage in research. Still it's a
possibility one day!
Besides the possibilities for interactive school work to guide repeated
student visits, the public will discover it means being able to access "The
Guide to the Mangroves of Singapore" from a wireless-enabled handphones!
The online version was prepared for the web by Ria Tan in 2001 and she had
ensured these were fast loading pages for a slow modem. In today's world of
handphone access, this means being able to refer to the pages and pictures
when you find yourself scratching you head over a familiar plant or insect!
See: http://tinyurl.com/3avgzw
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New book on seashores, “Private Lives” available at Raffles Museum
http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/merchandise/
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In early August, a new book was launched by the Minister of the Environment
and Water Resources (MEWR), Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim, that reveals the private
lives of the seashore life in Singapore. Titled "Private Lives," it was
penned by Peter Ng, Shirley Lim, Leo Tan and Wang Luan Keng.
It retails at $35.00 (hardcover) and $22.00 (paperback) and is available at
the Raffles Museum at Blk S2, Level 3 (below Science Library in the Faculty
of Science, NUS. You can also purchase the latest guidesheets there,
"Between the Tides" and "Mangroves: The Submerged Forests" ($5 each).
The earlier guidesheets were to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Fascinating
Insects of Singapore and Birds: Masters of Flight.
For more details, see: http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/merchandise/
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Wesley Wong's video, "International Coastal Cleanup Singapore"
http://tinyurl.com/39poop
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Wesley Wong produced this video of the International Coastal Cleanup
Singapore based on the cleanup at the Kranji-Buloh mangroves in September
2004. He did this rather painlessly, inserting comments based on information
from the ICCS webpage and the "Battling the Curse of Marine Litter" article.
I uploaded it to Google Video and anyone can download it to use for education;
its a nice clip for newcomers, thanks Wesley!
See: http://tinyurl.com/39poop
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Editor: N. Sivasothi (sivasothi@...),
Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, NUS
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