The Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve in Singapore is the first wetland reserve in Singapore, positioned in the northwestern part of Singapore amidst the Sarimbun reservoir and the Kranji reservoir. The Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve was opened for public visiting on 6th of December, 1993. Covering an area of about 87 hectares, the Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve was accredited with the standing of a nature reserve according to the Singapore National Parks Act on the 10th of November in 2001. The Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve is home to mangrove vegetations, fresh water ponds, numerous trails and hides for observing the resident and migratory birds, a visitors area and car parking ground.
In 1986, the Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve was brought into focus by the ardent call for conserving this nature reserve by the Singapore division of the famous Malayan Nature Society. The Government of Singapore took note of the propositions brought in by the Malayan Nature Society and the Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve came into being. The then Prime Minister of Singapore, Goh Chok Tong inaugurated the Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve on the 6th of December in the year1993. Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve is popular particularly for being home to wide varieties of birds including the big and the Siberian migratory birds.
Although home to the mangrove vegetations, the Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve features specially inhabitant and foreign weeds and other former types of mangroves which can’t be generally grown. At the Park-gate you can see an interesting species of bamboo, the Bambusa vulgaris. Other climber plants crawling through the big trees include Finlaysonia and Derris trifoliate. You can also see almost extinct and rare species of Cassine virburnifolia. Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve is also home to the 2 meter long monitor lizards, Archer fish, Malaysian Otters and gray and purple herons. Other forms of migratory birds at the Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve are seen in winter.
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