Green Holidays Experience at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Singapore

Green Holidays Experience Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Singapore

Step into the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Singapore and get your green holidays experience in an untouched form!

In 1882, Nathaniel Cantley, then Superintendent of the Singapore Botanic Gardens was commissioned by the Government of the Strait Settlements to prepare a report o the forests of the settlements. On Cantley’s recommendation, several forest reserves were created on the island over the next few years. Bukit Timah was one of the first forest reserves established in 1883. All the reserves were worked for timber with the exception of Bukit Timah Reserve. By 1937, the forest reserves were deleted under economic pressures for development. However, three areas, including the Bukit Timah Reserve, were retained for the protection of flora and fauna under management of the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

In 1951, further protection of the Reserves was provided by the enactment of a Nature Reserves Ordinance and the establishment of a Nature Reserves Board for the administration of the Reserves, now designated as Nature Reserves, which total some 2800 hectares in area.

Today, the nature reserves are set aside for the propagation, protection and preservation of the indigenous flora and fauna of Singapore under the National Parks Act and managed by the National Parks Board.

A mere 12 km from the bustling city, the 164 hectare (400 acres) reserve includes Singapore’s highest hill which stands at 163.63 metres and retains the only substantial area of primary rainforest left in Singapore. The Nature Reserve has one of the richest and most diverse ecological systems in the world. Visitors will see an astonishing variety of plant, animal and insect life, typical of a humid equatorial climate. The forest on Bukit Timah has been a botanical collecting ground for more than a century, and from it has been obtained the first known specimens of many species of Malayan plants. Dr Davic Bellamy, an eminent conservationist, pointed out that the number of three species growing in a mere hectare of the Reserve is more than the total number of tree species in all of North America.

Go green holidays and get your nature Singapore experience!

Singapore tourist attractions : Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
Address : 177 Hindhede Dr, Butik Batok, Singapore