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Sisters' Islands Marine Park
Sisters’ Islands Marine Park is a 400,000 square metre(40ha) marine park located in Southern Islands planning area, Singapore, which was designated a marine protected area (MPA) by the Government of Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore in 2014. The park encompasses the land and waters surrounding Sisters' Islands, and also covers the western coasts of both Saint John's Island, St John's Island and Pulau Tekukor. The park is Singapore's first marine park and it allows visitors to the park to experience the marine life around the region, through guided walks, the Marine Park Public Gallery and the dive trails where visitors can observe the marine life in the area. Overview In July 2014, National Parks Board (NParks) announced their plans for a new marine park. In 2017, during the debate on the List of Acts of Parliament in Singapore, Parks and Trees (Public Order Amendment Act 2017) Bill, the marine and foreshore areas of the islands were decided to be protected under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long-tailed Macaque
The crab-eating macaque (''Macaca fascicularis''), also known as the long-tailed macaque and referred to as the cynomolgus monkey in laboratories, is a cercopithecine primate native to Southeast Asia. A species of macaque, the crab-eating macaque has a long history alongside humans. The species has been alternately seen as an agricultural pest, a sacred animal, and, more recently, the subject of medical experiments. The crab-eating macaque lives in matrilineal social groups of up to eight individuals dominated by females. Male members leave the group when they reach puberty. It is an opportunistic omnivore and has been documented using tools to obtain food in Thailand and Myanmar. The crab-eating macaque is a known invasive species and a threat to biodiversity in several locations, including Hong Kong and western New Guinea. The significant overlap in macaque and human living space has resulted in greater habitat loss, synanthropic living, and inter- and intraspecies conflicts o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine Biodiversity
Marine life, sea life, or ocean life is the plants, animals and other organisms that live in the salt water of seas or oceans, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. At a fundamental level, marine life affects the nature of the planet. Marine organisms, mostly microorganisms, produce oxygen and sequester carbon. Marine life in part shape and protect shorelines, and some marine organisms even help create new land (e.g. coral building reefs). Most life forms evolved initially in marine habitats. By volume, oceans provide about 90% of the living space on the planet. The earliest vertebrates appeared in the form of fish, which live exclusively in water. Some of these evolved into amphibians, which spend portions of their lives in water and portions on land. One group of amphibians evolved into reptiles and mammals and a few subsets of each returned to the ocean as sea snakes, sea turtles, seals, manatees, and whales. Plant forms such as kelp and other algae grow in the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Reef Protection
Coral reef protection is the process of modifying human activities to avoid damage to healthy coral reefs and to help damaged reefs recover. The key strategies used in reef protection include defining measurable goals and introducing active management and community involvement to reduce stressors that damage reef health. One management technique is to create Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that directly limit human activities such as fishing. Recreational scuba diving can have a measurable adverse impact on tropical coral reefs, mostly due to contact damage of brittle and fragile branched stony corals. The most common damages of corals while diving occurs due to the fins striking the corals as well as hands, knees, and equipment gauges. This can be reduced by improving diver buoyancy and trim skills, and by educating divers on the consequences of clumsy behavior on the reef ecosystem. Divers given a 45 minute presentation on coral biology and protected areas combined with a brief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecosynthesis
Ecosynthesis is the use of introduced species to fill niches in a disrupted environment, with the aim of increasing the speed of ecological restoration. This decreases the amount of physical damage done in a disrupted landscape. An example is using willow in a stream corridor for sediment and phosphorus capture. It aims to aid ecological restoration, the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action. Humans use ecosynthesis to make environments more suitable for life, through restoration ecology (introduced species, vegetation mapping, habitat enhancement, remediation and mitigation.) Restoration ecology Ecological restoration aims to recreate, initiate, or accelerate the recovery of an ecosystem that has been disturbed. Revegetation: the establishment of vegetation on sites where it has been previously lost, often with erosion control as the primary goal. Habitat enhancemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 In Singapore
The following lists events that happened during 2018 in the Republic of Singapore. Incumbents *President: Halimah Yacob *Prime Minister: Lee Hsien Loong Events January * 1 January – JTC Corporation takes over all of Housing and Development Board's industrial land and properties to support SMEs better, a change first announced on 19 October 2016. * 4 January – The 4G leaders from People's Action Party release a statement, stating that they will choose a new leader in due course. * 8 January – **Radio station 96.3 Hao FM is launched by Singapore Press Holdings, a Mandarin station that plays classics. **The Public Sector (Governance) Act is passed, setting out rules on data-sharing in government agencies, and standardise how statutory boards are run. **Changes to the Immigration Act are passed to allow ICA officers to search and arrest suspects at checkpoints first-hand. The amendments have come into force on 1 April. * 13 January – SG Cares is launched to encourage Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JTC Corporation
JTC Corporation (JTC), formerly the Jurong Town Corporation, is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry that champions sustainable industrial development. It master-plans clean, green and smart estates to create attractive destinations for Singapore's talent and communities. The agency also drives innovations in the building and infrastructure sector. History Established on 1 June 1968 as the Jurong Town Corporation, JTC oversaw the development of Singapore's first industrial estate, and the launch of Singapore's industrialisation drive. The bulk of the agency's mission was focused on the development of the Jurong Industrial Estate. To do this, JTC developed Jurong holistically, to encourage Singaporeans to move in, work and raise their families there. A large Town Centre was built, complete with shops and facilities, and a drive-in cinema. The first childcare centre and first hawker centre were both set up in Jurong. As part of Singapore's Garden City campaig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Aquaculture
Coral aquaculture, also known as coral farming or coral gardening, is the cultivation of corals for commercial purposes or coral reef restoration. Aquaculture is showing promise as a tool for restoring coral reefs, which are dying off around the world.Horoszowski-Fridman, YB, Izhaki, I & Rinkevich, B (2011"Engineering of coral reef larval supply through transplantation of nursery-farmed gravid colonies"''Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology'', 399(2): 162–166.Pomeroy, RS, Parks, JE and Balboa, CM (2006"Farming the reef: is aquaculture a solution for reducing fishing pressure on coral reefs?"''Marine Policy,'' 30(2): 111–130.Rinkevich, B (2008"Management of coral reefs: We have gone wrong when neglecting active reef restoration" ''Marine pollution bulletin,'' 56(11): 1821–1824. The process protects young corals while they are most at risk of dying. Small corals are propagated in nurseries and then replanted on the reef.Ferse, SCA 2010"Poor Performance of Corals Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Council Of Social Service
The National Council of Social Service (NCSS) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Social and Family Development of the Government of Singapore. The organisation is the national coordinating body for Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs) in Singapore. The Social Service Institute and the Community Chest are part of the National Council of Social Service. See also * List of social service agencies in Singapore References External linksThe website of the National Council of Social Service 1992 establishments in Singapore Organisations of the Singapore Government Medical and health organisations based in Singapore {{gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother Nature Network
Mother Nature Network (mnn.com) was a website with news and information related to sustainability, health, lifestyle, technology, money, food, home, and family. Founded in 2009 by former marketing executive Joel Babbit and Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell, it was the flagship property of Narrative Content Group, whose equity partners included CNN and Discovery Inc."MNN.com Analytics" SimilarWeb. Retrieved 2015-08-02. Content It covers a wide range of topics beyond traditional "green" issues – including family, pets, travel, health, home, and food.Has Mother Nature found key to Web success?< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neptune's Cup Sponge
''Cliona patera'', commonly called Neptune's cup sponge, is a species of demosponge in the family Clionaidae. Among the larger known sponges at up to a meter in height and width, the common name ''Neptune's cup'' refers to its characteristic wine glass shape and the Roman god of the sea. The species was thought to be extinct since late 1900s due to overharvesting, but live specimens were discovered in 2011 off the coast of Singapore and Thailand. Later they were transported so they can be close enough to reproduce. Another population was later found in Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan .... In the early 1900s, they were used as baby baths because they grew so large. References Animals described in 1822 Hadromerida {{demosponge-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNA (TV Network)
CNA (stylised as cna), which is an acronym derived from its previous name, Channel NewsAsia, is a Singaporean multinational news channel owned by the country's national public broadcaster Mediacorp. It broadcasts free-to-air domestically in Singapore and as a pay television channel internationally to 29 territories across the Asia-Pacific. The channel's logo is a stylised red letter A with folding patterns. The network has been positioned as an alternative to Western-based international media in its presentation of news from "an Asian perspective". It is run by Mediacorp News Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of the Singapore's media conglomerate Mediacorp Pte Ltd. Alongside its main focus as an English-language news television channel, CNA also broadcasts and produces news and current affairs content in Singapore's other official languages: Chinese, Malay and Tamil. Content is produced for Mediacorp's online platforms, with news bulletins made for and shown on the company's mass e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
