ANN/THE STRAITS TIMES – With the urbanisation of Singapore and deforestation of land that made way for the modern country it is today, it was believed that it had lost at least two-thirds of its biodiversity. However, a recent report revealed that this is not the case with only a 37-per-cent loss in the city-state’s […]
New study challenges previous estimates of biodiversity decline in Singapore SINGAPORE (ANN/THE STRAITS TIMES) – Since the founding of modern Singapore in 1819, vast swathes of lush forest and their natural inhabitants have been cleared to make way for human settlements, plantations, and urban development. For years, scientists believed that this extensive deforestation had led […]
Singapore lost nearly 40% of its biodiversity in past 200 years, not as much as was believed: Study Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.