Dantruong Travel & Tourism

Singapore – It is hard to imagine that the “lion city”, which we now know as a modern city-state, in the 19th century, never been in a condition such as Alfred Russel Wallace is reported in The Malay Archipelago. Wallace told of Bukit Timah heavily wooded with a tiger loose in it. The tiger that threatens his job collected insects for biological collections. Changes that have occurred over 150 years not only has changed the face of Singapore, but also did not leave his old face.

Wallace told the place on the Bukit Timah. Between the years 1854 to 1862, Wallace mengisahkannya as a place that is hilly, covered with forests, inhabited by tigers, and is one of the richest diversity of insects in the world.
Now, in the 21st century, we find the Bukit Timah as a highway that is located in the area between downtown Singapore and Changi Airport. The road is clean, with well-ordered region in the left-right too. But do not save something special.

Both the hills and forests, who so admired Wallace, has long gone. Mohammed Amen, one guide from the Singapore Tourism Board, said the hills in Singapore has long gone since leveled. The soil used in reclamation projects. “Now in Singapore can say no more hills,” he said.
And the hills are not the only one who has disappeared. Natural tropical forests, also has long suffered a similar fate.

However, do not then think of Singapore as an island of barren flat. Forests, land and other natural resources may have been during the process of development of Singapore. However, like most countries that have managed to lift themselves into developed countries, awareness of the environment to return to the original conditions were re-emerge.
The Singapore government spent millions of dollars to process the garbage, build parks, clean rivers and the sea, and pressing pollution levels. In fact, the Singapore government created a number of community facilities where Singapore can momentarily forget the sight tall buildings, and enjoy the beauty of tropical forests and many animals that live in it. Everything, of course, made by human hands.