Vol
10 No 3
VIP
Guests
Community Involvement Programme by Jurong
West Secondary School
Photographing Nature Workshop forCommonwealth
Secondary School
Experiencing Life in the Mangroves with the Canadian
International School (Singapore)
Doing what they do best for a good cause: Hillgrove
Secondary School
Volunteers Conduct Heron Counts at Sungei Buloh
13th International Coastal Cleanup
Wild Boar Sightings
An ASEAN Experience: Conference on ASEAN Heritage Parks
Volunteer Outing to Pulau Kukup and Yong Peng
Heronry
Young Hearts for Nature: Young Naturalist Passport Camp
|
|
| VIP
Guests |
Ng
Sock Ling
assistant director
|
Sungei
Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR) welcomed some very important people over
the last few months.
Ministry of National Development Permanent Secretary, Mr Tan Tee How
and Deputy Secretary, Mr Choo Whatt Bin came by for a visit on 22
May 2004.
His Excellency Mr Michael Teo, Singapore’s High Commissioner to the
Court of St. James’s and Ambassador to Ireland came with his family
to SBWR on 24 August.
SBWR’s most recent VIP guest, His Royal Highness Prince Edward, the
Earl of Wessex, visited SBWR on 2 Oct 2004. He was accompanied by
the British High Commissioner, Mr Alan Colins.
Forty excited Young Naturalists and about 20 National Youth Achievement
Award (NYAA) winners and participants were there to greet His Royal
Highness, as were the HSBC Green Volunteers and SBWR Volunteers. All
were eager to show the royal visitor how the HSBC-NParks-NYAAC partnership
worked.
Prince Edward watched as the NYAA participants from Ngee Ann Polytechnic
explained to the Young Naturalists the importance of the mangroves
and smiled his approval at a scribbled bird list a Young Naturalist
presented to him. He spent time talking with the NYAA award winners,
and went on a guided tour of the Mangrove Boardwalk with the HSBC
Green Volunteers.
|
 |
Before he left, Prince
Edward planted a sea teak tree ( Podocarpus polystachyus) together with
SBWR’s partners in conservation, represented by HSBC CEO Mr Paul Lawrence,
NYAAC Chairman Professor Leo Tan, Ngee Ann Polytechnic Principal Mr Chia
Mia Chiang and NParks Chief Operating Officer Dr Leong Chee Chiew.
|
wetlands