EnviroFest 2006

Our participation at the EnviroFest would not have been so fun without the presence of our volunteers. Thanks to Karen, Woon Kiew, Eric and Leshon, who spent the Sunday helping us at the booth! And not forgetting the support of Eric's mum, Leshon's dad, mum and sister!

Eric and Leshon did an excellent job going around asking for donation to our education fund. I bet almost all the participants had known them by the end of the event and many would have now gotten a copy of the TreeTop Walk guide book. They even approached the GOH Mr Heng Chee How.

We look forward to participating in another exhibition. Next time, we shall plan interactive activities in addition to our static display. The SP team in front of our stall gave us so much inspiration with their constant stream of children joining to play the snakes and ladders!

More photos on my flickr.

Biodiversity Day Planting

To celebrate International Day for Biological Diveristy (22 May), the staff from Schering Plough and their family members carried out reforestation at Jering Trail, MacRitchie on 20 May. They donated $5,000 and planted 40 tree saplings at an area that was previously occupied by Resam fern.

Earth Day Planting

Haven’t been able to provide regular update on the happenings of CNR on this blog ever since my home PC started to be cranky 2 months ago. Since I have some time in the office this morning, I will try to “back blog” some events and activities.

On Earth Day (22 April), students from Woodgrove Secondary, who adopted the forest area along Mandai Road, helped us reforest a degraded area with about 100 trees. With the help of volunteers Raymond, Joseph, Susan and Kwong hung and my colleagues, Nasir, Ragu, Thomas, Firman and Sidek, we were able to complete the planting in about 2 hours!



Check out more photos on my flickr.

Redwood State Park

Dear friends in Singapore, just to share a picture taken at the Armstrong Redwoods State Park -Guerneville, California. Here you see me with the cross-section of a fallen redwood tree. It is estimated to be over a thousand-year old. The metal tags on the tree reflects the world events (San Francisco earthquake, World War One and Two etc.) which had taken place as the tree was growing. Isn't that amazing?

To read more about the state park, you can visit http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=450