People walk along the boardwalk in Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.
Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images
By Justina T Lee
25 January 2025 at 9:00 AM SGT
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Welcome to Singapore Edition. Each week we bring you insights into one of Asia’s most dynamic economies. If you haven’t yet, please sign up here.
This week, Justina T. Lee looks at plans to preserve the island’s biodiversity, Marcus Wong watches the Trump effect filter into the local markets, and Alfred Cang wonders why there are so many property agents.
Swamp Fever
Ten years ago, on Jan. 19, 2015, the National Parks Board gave its first lecture in a program that would transform Singapore’s approach to maintaining its green spaces, pivoting from a policy based on preservation and provision of public spaces to a systematic attempt to restore the island’s natural environment and biodiversity.
The latest chapter in that journey was announced this month with a plan to create a 72.8 hectare mangrove park in Mandai, along a stretch of the northern shore close to the existing Sungei Buloh nature reserve. Due to open in 2028, it would be Singapore’s third-largest park. NParks said it will also construct and enhance three other parks in the west of Singapore.