Mangroves are not only for their natural ability to prevent coastal erosion and activity as a nursery for young fries of fishes ,prawn and other marine creatures.Man has been using materials gather from mangroves to create tools and equipment to help in their daily live

1.Sand Pit

2.Fish Tail Leaves

     The root of Mangroves Trees take in salt water.The salt water is excreted on the leaf of the Mangroves Trees

3.Cicada-insect sound  are hear in Sungei Buloh Natural Reserve

 These are some images of the roots of the mangroves tree....

These branches are known as Sparse undergrowth.....

      Some undergrowth is dominated by graminoids with few shrubs. Pinegrass (Calamagrostis rubescens) and/or Geyer’s sedge (Carex geyeri) can appear with grouseberry in the subalpine zone. Pumice soils support grassy undergrowth of long-stolon sedge (C. inops), Idaho fescue (Festuca idahoensis) or western needlegrass (Stipa occidentalis). The latter two species may occur with bitterbrush or big sagebrush and other bunchgrass steppe species. Other nondominant indicator graminoids frequently encountered in this habitat are California oatgrass (Danthonia californica), blue wildrye (Elymus glaucus), Columbia brome (Bromus vulgaris) and oniongrass (Melica bulbosa). Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), and bottlebrush squirreltail (Elymus elymoides) can be locally abundant where livestock grazing has persisted.

Can you spot??

Can you spot how many different types of Branches are there ?




If your answer is 2................... IT IS CORRECT !   the first 1 are all those small branches hanging around.. they are called liana... while the second 1 is those at the side of the trees... they are called Epiphyte :D

We found a special kind of branch

The small branches there are called Liana.....

Lianas are vines that begin life on the ground as small self-supporting shrubs and rely on other plants to reach the light-rich environment of the upper canopy. Because lianas use the architecture of other plants for support, they devote relatively little to structural support and instead allocate more resources to leaf production and stem/root elongation for rapid growth. Since lianas are rooted throughout their lives (unlike other structural parasites like epiphytes and hemiepiphytes), they take nothing from the tree except support.

We also found many exotic animals...

4 in 1 :D

The white-collared kingfisher is a resident bird of Singapore and is often be found flying among the mangrove trees.

The monitor lizard is the largest lizard found in Singapore and can grow up to two meters. Another lizard found in Sungei Buloh is the changeable lizard, which blends well into the surrounding flora.

we managed to take of two mud skipper......

While exploring ts the reserve, we found many types leaves...

Trip to sugei buloh nature reserve:D

The Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve is Singapore's first and only protected wetland reserve, and is home to over 500 species of tropical flora and fauna. Sungei Buloh was first discovered by avid birdwatchers from the then Malayan Nature Society (Singapore Branch), who then wrote a proposal to the government for its conservation. The development of the park was undertaken by the Parks and Recreation Department (which is now the National Parks Board) with experts from the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust from the United Kingdom and the Worldwide Fund for Nature. The nature park was officially opened on 6 December 1993. In 2002, the 130 ha was officially gazetted as a nature reserve and was renamed the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. The reserve was also declared an ASEAN Heritage Park in 2003.

At the entrance, we managed to catch a sight of the a MONITOR LIZARD.  It was a really good and and lucky experience. The water there was rather muddy, but it suits the MONITOR LIZARD well ^_^

When we entered the Reserve, we thought these were real living creatures as it looked really life-like, but it was a statue. Do You Think It Looks Real?...













In the reserve, they have...

• Sea hibiscus (Hibiscus tiliaceus) - has heart-shaped leaves and can grow up to 13 meters tall.
• Pondweed (Monochoria hastate) - an aquatic herb with broad spearhead-shaped leaves and long stalks. The flowers are light violet and the fruits are enclosed in capsule with many tiny seeds within.
• Ceratopteris thalictroides - a fleshy tufted aquatic fern that looks like fleshy celery.
• Cattail or bulrush (Typha angustifolia) - an aquatic grass-like herb that can grow up to three meters tall. The sausage-looking inflorescence contains tiny fruits that are dispersed by the wind. Birds like munias and bulbuls also gather these cotton-like fruits to line their nest.
• Water lettuce - a floating plant that has soft velvety leaves and bears small, white flowers.
• Water banana - bears two types of roots; those that look like bananas and those that anchor the plant to the soil.