Sentosa's reefs and their hapless residents, from baby clownfish to sleepy seahorses, made way for the integrated resort this past week, as the machines moved in and a salvage team played god with a few 'lucky' corals that may or may not survive transplantation to new shores.
All the news and pictures here:
• Wild Singapore's round up of local press coverage and photo gallery.
• One third a reef better than none? on the Wildfilms blog.
• Wildfilms' record of life now lost in Sentosa's natural underwater world
• Sentosa Blues by some non-ovulating duck
To see what remains in the shallow seas that surround Singapore, the public can now visit the reopened Chek Jawa Wetland at Pulau Ubin, with a free 1.1 km boardwalk that runs over the mud and through the mangroves plus a watchtower and visitor centre. It's nothing compared to going down onto the seagrass meadows, rocky flats and sand bars where surprises await behind every stone and stem, but go while you can; 10 years is a painfully short time see an infinite variety of life before the shore succumbs to man's boundless need for land.
Homepage for Chek Jawa.
Wild Singapore's gallery of Chek Jawa old and new.
The brand new Chek Jawa boardwalk and gallery at Habitatnews.
Nice set of links to Sentosa and Chek Jawa. Ahh.... the things that we do for progress and development. One of the reasons why they built the boardwalk was to prevent having too many people get down and dirty in the seagrass bed and "loving Chek Jawa to death"!
Posted by: Walter | 08 July 2007 at 09:40 AM