Wildfilms blogger writes… “And the saddest thing about this is that this section of the beach is doomed for reconstruction – carparks and whatnots. All these pretty critters will dissapear and be replaced with clean, spartan concrete.”“[T]he underwater world, purported to showcase the marine world to the tourists, has all of 2 or 3 coral […]

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Blog diver Geraldine Lee dived with us in March and shares these exquisite photographs with us! Though she claimed they weren’t “professionally shot”, I think she managed to capture the essence and excitement of the dive, and another perspective that was missed by other divers who preferred to focus on the macro life. I certainly […]

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See the brilliant photograph of a Black tipped reef shark, shot at Semakau on the nature spies blog.

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Wildsingapore marks upcoming International Day for Biological Diversity, coming up on 22 May (Tuesday) with photos of marine life on our Red List.

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Tan Sijie has posted two videos up at YouTube that he took of dolphin’s off St. John’s Island on 7th April 2007. Dolphins are occasionally sighted along Singapore’s coast. To see the video, swing onto the Habitatnews site.

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The Environmental report for disposal of dredged material at designated containment site east of Pulau Semakau is now available for viewing for 4 weeks from 02 May 2007. “The Public Utilities Board plans to dredge sediment material from Sungei Punggol and Sungei Serangoon. The dredged material will be placed in the Maritime and Port Authority […]

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That’s what Hantu Blog volunteer Marcel dan Herder from the Netherlands texted me on my mobile phone after surfacing from the 2nd dive at Hantu last Sunday. He was so excited from his dive as he had to tell me as soon as the dive was over that he’d seen a huge blue cod, which […]

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Channel NewsAsia 11 Apr 07 SINGAPORE : Beginning May 2, passengers will have to pay $4 more for ferry tickets between Marina South Pier and the Southern Islands. The new charges for adults will now be $15, while children will have to pay $12. The operators of the ferry services York Launch says there are […]

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By Krist Boo Straits Times 12 Apr 07 Five months after announcing with much fanfare that the Southern Islands would be turned into the next big tourist attraction, the plans have been put on hold. Although the Singapore Tourism Board wouldn’t reveal why, industry sources say the Government is considering housing a casino on the […]

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On Good Friday, the Hantu Blog visited Hantu’s intertidal reef. It was a refreshing perspective at Hantu’s underwater life that sometimes lives a life between the zones. It’s a harsh environment from a creature that needs water to survive, but we found out that the habitat is a bouty full of animals that know how […]

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