How wildlife and humans can live in harmony as natural habitats make way for development
Some residents of new BTO flats in Punggol North are concerned about an influx of monkey sightings, which they say can become aggressive. The monkeys would also go to the newly-opened SIT.
In this fourth episode, our trails won’t be entirely green. Instead of a nature park or a green space, we head over to an urban place surrounded by buildings and construction noise. Long-tailed macaques outside a construction site next to 436A Northshore Drive on Sept 17, 2024. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI Strolling along Punggol Settlement and the promenade opposite Coney Island, the conversation turns to other wildlife in our midst – from the common palm civets that tend to sneak into private houses, to the ever-present junglefowls.
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