By the end of 2016, the calls of nature from Bidadari, an area of some 26 hectares will be
replaced by the familiar construction sounds of swirling cranes and ground
pounding machines. And with those sounds, 40% of Singapore’s bird species will disappear.
With my glassy
eyed memories from yesteryears when I accompanied my late grandmother to visit my
grandfather’s grave in that area, I am again faced with another loss of the
natural environment after witnessing the loss of another green lung, Bukit
Brown.
My earlier blog
entries regarding the loss of Bukit Brown,
For those
who want to venture there, here’s a map of the trail, http://heritagefest.sg/events/bidadari-heritage-trail
I leave you
with a video of David Attenborough’s famous video of the amazing Lyre Bird singing
like a chainsaw…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ as this was exactly what I heard when walking through the trail today.
Here are some links for those who want to read more about this:
Till the next time, onto the world and beyond.
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