Lena Chan – Let’s grow more biodiverCities

Such a poetic and eye opening talk. I never see my ride to Changi airport the same now.

Singapore biodiversity: Singapore has more birds than France, more butterflies than the UK (60 species only), 1/3 of coral in the world

Lena-Chan-stats

the 300km park connectors connect natural reserves to parks, parks to parks

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the overarching canopy of the trees acts as an aerial pathway for monkeys, squirrels to cross over:

Lena-Chan-Mandai-Road

This is now wonderfully illustrated with the Ecolink@BKE bridge that enables wildlife to cross the busy highway:

http://graphics.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/Interactives/2015/11/feature-ecolink-BKE-national-parks/index.html