Plans for second marine park in S’pore crucial amid crowded seas, coral bleaching threats

SINGAPORE – The promise of

a second marine park

in Singapore’s southern islands – where the last bastions of coral life in the country can be found – marks a wave of change in the Republic’s approach to marine conservation.

Urbanisation and land reclamation in Singapore’s early phases of development in the 1960s had wiped out about two-thirds of Singapore’s coral reefs, and left the country’s waters murky with stirred-up sediment till today.