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A 2019 photo of the Kranji section of the former KTM railway line. That year, JTC and the National Parks Board decided to retain the part of the Rail Corridor cutting through the Kranji site for the Agri-Food Innovation Park as a green spine for the development, even though it was initially meant to be re-routed southwards. That retained segment of the Rail Corridor is overgrown with albizias that will need to be managed and gradually removed, with native species replanted, once development works are complete, says NParks.
PHOTO: NATIONAL PARKS BOARD
When viewed from above, the lush, broccoli-like tree tops of the Kranji woodland give the impression of an ecosystem as rich as other tropical rainforest plots in Singapore.
So when photographs of cleared parts of the woodland flanking the Rail Corridor in Sungei Kadut started circulating on Valentine's Day, Singaporeans who had fallen for the nature spaces in their own backyard were taken aback, with some lamenting the loss of yet another forest plot in Singapore.
