The Sisters Islands Marine Park is the forever home of corals salvaged from the Semakau Landfill. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources was at Sisters Islands to mark the relocation and nature groups were invited to the event.
Here's Eugene Goh from DHI, which conducted the relocation, briefing the Minister about the marine life being relocated to the Sisters Islands.
On the shore, the Minister was briefed on the corals relocated to Sisters Islands by Dr Karenne Tun, Deputy Director, Coastal & Marine, National Biodiveristy Centre at NParks.
Here's an assortment of hard corals rescued from Semakau Landfill, waiting to be placed on reefs at Sisters Islands.
The Minister and his part gather at the sea end to participate in the relocation.
At the sea edge, the Minister hands over a Giant clam rescued from Semakau Landfill for divers to place on the reefs at Sisters Island.
Over the last few months, divers have worked hard to carefully remove corals found in the Semakau Landfill lagoon.
The rescued corals are eventually placed on their forever home, the reef at Sisters Islands.
Among the amazing finds in the Semakau Landfill lagoon was this Neptune’s Cup Sponge, which was once considered extinct until they were re-discovered in our waters in recent years.
After the ceremonies, the Minister had a brief look at Sisters Islands. Here, he has found Common sea stars and arranged them into our Singapore flag formation.
He takes a photo of the arrangement. Here's more of Minister's photos of his trip on
facebook.
Although we couldn't find an animal to form the cresent moon, we did find a humungous Moon snail.
Oh dear, one of the photographers is pinched by a young flower crab.
The Minister helps release the crab. Once we put the crab in water, it will let go.
The Minister also had a look at some of the awesome creatures that the volunteers and NParks staff had found for the ongoing public walk. Among them, this seahorse!
More about where the corals were relocated from and what this means for Singapore's shore on the
wild shores of singapore blog.
Other posts by those on this trip
Media articles about this event
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