By Grace Chua
VISITORS to the Southern Ridges will soon be serenaded by a
wider variety of birds, attracted by trees from a new National
Parks Board project.
NParks has planted a variety of native trees along the sides of
a forest trail in a 20-hectare swathe of land near Gillman Village,
to attract more and different types of avian life to feed on the
fruit and insects there.
In a few months, the parks authority will start guided walks and
bird-watching trips as well.
This 'Singing Forest' project, launched yesterday, was sponsored
by semiconductor firm ST Microelectronics under the Garden City
Fund, an NParks charity. ST Microelectronics declined to disclose
how much it gave.
It is the newest of the parks authority's projects at the
Southern Ridges, the hilly green area stretching from West Coast
Park to Harbourfront.
Last month, it launched the Sembcorp Forest of Giants, a stretch
of trees which will grow to the height of 30-storey HDB blocks.