Tanjong Katong was an area that held an open view of the sea with villages, seaside bungalows and coconut groves stretching along its sandy beach.[...]
The Javan myna (Acridotheres javanicus)[LM2.1] is one of Singapore’s most ubiquitous birds today, but did you know that a hundred years ago, this bird was hardly seen in the wild here?[...]
William Jack was a Scottish naturalist who visited Singapore in 1819. As he approached the shore, he commented: “It is impossible to conceive anything more beautiful than the approach to this place through the Archipelago of Islands that lie at the Eastern extremity of the Straits of Malacca”.[...]
