Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve was born in unusual circumstances. In the mid-1980s, Sg. Buloh's once luxuriant mangroves had mostly been cleared for prawn farming. The site itself was on the verge of being demarcated for intensive agro-tech farming. As fate would have it, a group of avid bird-watchers from the then Malayan Nature Society (Singapore Branch) stumbled upon the site and was enthralled by the extraordinary diversity of birds there.

With the Society's report on the site, and support from the top echelons of ... (more)