Preparing for the move, articles in Straits Times and 联合早报 Posted on 19 March 2013 by jangancemas Text to ST article Animal specimens prepped for move By Tan Dawn Wei Assistant News Editor Curators at NUS museum will pack up collection after it closes on March 31 ITS new home will not...
Native Fig Species as a Keystone Resource for the Singapore Urban Environment by A. F. S. L. Lok, W. F. Ang, B. Y. Q. Ng, T. M. Leong, C. K. Yeo & H. T. W. Tan has been published and is available for download
From RMBR alone, collections manager Kelvin , curator Siong Kiat , Scientific Manager and Education Unit Team Leader Luan Keng , and members of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum project Swee Hee and Belinda were recognised for their service to the museum and tirelessly going a...
We’ve been talking about it for a long time and it is finally here! RMBR will close from the April 1 and as a final thank you gesture, we’d like to invite everyone to join us for a Last Hurrah! We’ve certainly come a long way since 1986, when the collection first moved in, and it has ...
Comprehensive Marine Biodiversity Survey expedition held in Pulau Ubin last October continues to make waves, this time in the latest issue of NUS’ Knowledge Enterprise!
Powerful painkiller from cobra venom NUS researchers develop painkiller 20 times stronger than morphine – David Ee JUST one bite from a king cobra kills a fully grown man in hours. But the snake’s lethal venom could one day kill pain in humans instead. Researchers at the National Univ...
Elizabeth Eu recounts – “My exchange experience at Lund University, Sweden” 14 February 2013 Today, Mon 28 Jan 2013: 2.30pm @ LT31 (S16) – NParks CEO Poon Hong Yuen shares about the future of nature conservation and greening in Singapore 28 January 2013 1 Feb 2013, Friday: 4pm @ LT20:...
MRT network size to double by 2030 Christopher Tan SINGAPORE’S train network is set to double in size over the next 17 years, with two new lines and three extensions announced yesterday. The slew of new projects means 80 per cent of households will be no more than 10 minutes’ walk fro...
Seminar: Natural Selection and Evolution: Lessons from butterfly mimicry (Friday 1 February, 4 PM, LT 20) Art Garfunkel and his bright eyed crab RMBR staff recognised in 2012′s NUS Quality Service Award Spotlight on Singapore Big Year, a year’s worth of bird race!
Natural selection is the central tenet of evolutionary biology. A few key phenomena have helped improve our understanding of natural selection and how it affects biodiversity from large ecological communities and constituent species to genomes and genes. One such system is Batesian mi...
The paper by Peter Davie and Peter Ng is published in the latest issue of Zootaxa and revises the Chiromantes obtusifron complex. From one wide-spread Indo-West Pacific species, there are now five species with discrete distributions. The real C. obitusifrons is now known to be endemic...
We had a good start to the New Year when The New Paper published this beautifiul centre spread highlighting the beautiful marine animals collected during the Northern Expedition! Copyright © 2011 Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Co.
The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 26, an inventory of the loaches of the world, is now available for download
The Public Gallery of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research will be closed from 1st April 2013 in preparation for the move to the new museum. We certainly regret the inconvenience and loss of this biodiversity gallery which sees a steady stream of visitors and students on assign...
Meet Pei Yan, our work attachment volunteer! Posted on 7 December 2012 by jangancemas This December, we welcome Miss Heng Pei Yan from CHIJ Katong Convent, who is spending two weeks (3–14 December) with the museum as part of her work attachment. Miss Heng is no stranger to us, being a...
Habitat degradation and fragmentation in the tropics, especially in South East Asia, poses great threat to tropical butterflies. Forest dependant butterfly species get worse hit as they lose original habitat and are often unable to colonize degraded habitats due to lack of species spe...
Is there a place for Biodiversity in the Singapore Story? Professor Leo Tan at Labrador Beach (Image from Wildfilms) EYE ON SINGAPORE; Biodiversity in the Singapore story Grace Chua THE other day, as I stood drying my hands in a Botanic Gardens bathroom, I saw a crimson sunbird flitti...
Close to 200 people are carefully dredging the seabed and sifting through sand and coral as they conduct the largest audit so far of marine life around Singapore’s northern islands and coasts. The expedition, which was officially launched yesterday, is part of the five-year Comprehens...
Examination of the holotype and other specimens of the type species of Garthiella Titgen, 1986, G. aberrans (Rathbun, 1906), reveals that this genus must be excluded from Chlorodiellinae Ng & Holthuis, 2007, due to the absence of the diagnostic morphological features of the subfamily ...
The book starts with a look at Singapore’s wild past: its biogeography from before human occupation up to 19th century changes and finishes with a look at the possible future of wildlife in the country. In between, there are full details on the current flora and fauna to be found in a...
Sights Unseen (PURE Magazine Oct-Dec 2012 Issue, featuring Private Lives: An Exposé on Singapore’s Rainforests For the love of nature (NUS Buzz Quarterly Staff E-Newsletter, Issue #13, September 2012) Fauna reported from Batu caves, Selangor, Malaysia: annotated checklist and bibliogr...
To address a range of associated issues, a seminar entitled Biological Approaches to Coastal Enhancement and Restoration - jointly organised by National Parks Board, EcoShape, Singapore-Delft Water Alliance and NUSDeltares – will be held on October 24, 2012 at the National University ...
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 -1913) was a famous naturalist who was significant in nature conservation and his work in Singapore. Senior Lecturer John van Whye and his team of experts developed the Wallace Online archive to showcase the first complete edition of the writings of natural...
Pre-talk prep and introductions! Last friday, the second of the Wallace Lectures Series was held at the Botanic Gardens! This time, the distinguished speaker was Dr Bertrand Richer de Forges on “Marine Biodiversity: Known and Unknown”. All who attended discovered the amazing creatures...
This little crab, Johora singaporensis, is a true citizen of Singapore, for it can only be found on our island nation and no where else on Earth. However, its future truly depends on what we do to protect it, for J. singaporensis has been named as one of the 100 most threatened specie...
Ten years on, the Raffles Museum, with the support of the Singapore Government is once again host to another programme of the MSR TWG. The Workshop on Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity held from the 31st of July 2012 to the 4th of August 2012 brought together 28 experts from 16 count...
This time round, we took the opportunity to tap on his expertise and experiences, having being involved in many of Australia’s recent marine biodiversity censuses and invited him to share them with us at the Wallace Lectures . A decent crowd showed up even though it was an evening tal...
We are pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of Zootaxa dedicated to KUMEJIMA 2012, a Japanese-Singaporean-Taiwanese led initiative to survey the marine biodiversity of Kumejima, the Ryukyus in November 2009. This issue includes 23 papers on crustaceans, echinoderms a...
Prof. Wee, a botanist who now runs the Bird Ecology Study Group (BESG) website, was distinguished for his principled yet irreverent personality by friends, colleagues and former students alike for his work as an academic as well as the president of the Nature Society of Singapore. Dr....
The PRIVATE LIVES series of natural history books has been one of the most successful publications in the Raffles Museum stable of publications. Three books have already been published—on seashores, mangroves and freshwater; and the fourth book in this series focuses on another key ha...
