Saturday afternoon slaughter

Iris Ng stalked slender squirrels in our nature reserves. Honours poster preparations continue.

Saturday morning slaughter

Germaine Leng with her mangrove horseshoe crab poster, all ready for scrutiny!

Meeting the new ICCS Zone Captains

Instead of Site Allocation Exercise on a Friday night, an introduction about the programme was called for as we were meeting several new volunteers. Understanding objectives and motivation is important for when it gets tough later.

It was heartening to meet the new volunteers, and to reflect on the long years of service all the ICCS Otters have put in over the years. I remember when it was Kate Thome and a few NSS folk running operations and collating data cards in the 90’s.

Interestingly, we are a bunch of mostly science and engineering people.

After confirming a few names in the list below, manpower operations will be settled. Then it’s time for site visits before the Site Allocation Exercises begin at the end of next month.

Wish Ocean Conservancy’s Sonya Besteiro could join us at one of our meetings!

Photos by Teo Kah Ming

Learning about climate change awareness and attitudes

Waverly Aw came over for a discussion about climate change awareness amongst youth in Singapore. Having just read the AAAS Climate Science Panel’s “What We Know,” I was interested from the perspective of science communication.

And after a preliminary discussion, I was roped in.