Today Online 20 Nov 07;
The Sentosa Leisure Group is embarking on a project to restore a primary forest on the resort island for the first time. It will invest an initial $200,000 to kick off its efforts and has roped in 150 pupils to help write this green chapter in the history books.
With guidance from Sentosa and nature experts, nine schools have adopted plots across 12 to 15 hectares to grow native plant species from around the region.
Sentosa's nature reserves now comprise essentially secondary coastal forests, some of which are rather sparse and low in quality, resulting from historical clearing of the forest in the early 19th Century.
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Comments on this report on the nature scouter blog
See also Joseph Lai's Sentosa's Destroyed Habitats about the Sentosa forest that was cleared for the Integrated Resort
