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Digitising S'pore's natural history key to fostering conservation: Don
Five-year undertaking aims to document 10,000 specimens collected over the past 200 years
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The truth of the matter is that you cannot conserve what you do not know, said National University of Singapore (NUS) professor Peter Ng. But in order to gain that knowledge, he added, you need to return to conservation's source of knowledge - the past.
And in the case of the project that Prof Ng is leading at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at NUS, the pursuit of this past stretches more than 200 years.
