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CT Sen. Hwang applauds the passage of the Long Island Sound Blue Plan, which catalogues area resources and maps out a future plan for usage.

Land of Leatheries: Terumbu Pempang Tengah Huge leathery soft corals colonies of various shapes and colours crowd the southern part of Terumbu Pempang Tengah! Even though this submerged reef lies near Jurong Island and major shipping lanes. Today, I also came across two Fluted giant clams, and I didn't see any mass coral bleaching. Kok Sheng surveyed a reefy part of the shore and saw a wide variety of healthy corals. There have always been a wide variety of Leathery soft corals on the shore. Some resemble fried omelette, others look like discarded gloves. Each is a colony is made up of countl...

Terumbu Bemban still reefy A glorious sunrise as we head out to Terumbu Bemban, a submerged reef off Pulau Semakau. The last time we were here in  Jun 2020 it was to check for mass coral bleaching.  We didn't see much bleaching last  year, and today, I saw mostly healthy corals. The team also found a large Fluted giant clam, lots of 'Nemos', a seahorse and other interesting marine life. There is a small area here densely covered with hard corals. Healthy corals are usually brown. Indeed, I was relieved to see that this reefy stretch was alright, although there was one white bleaching cor...

St. John's Island is alive! A short boat ride from the Central Business District on the main island of Singapore, are the amazing living shores of St John's Island! Here, there are living rocky shores, reefs, seagrass meadows. As well as rare mangrove trees on the untouched western shore, which is part of the Sisters Islands Marine Park. Things were pretty much similar to our last survey here in Oct 2020. It was great to see Clown anemonefishes in some of the Giant carpet anemones. I also saw one in a Magnificent anemone - but it was too shy for a photograph. 

Coral overload at Pulau Hantu Although it lies just across the petrochemical plants on Pulau Bukom, there are living reefs, seagrasses and even mangroves on Pulau Hantu.  On our last survey in Jul 2020, mass coral bleaching was seen here as well as many other shores. It was thus a relief today, to see no signs of mass bleaching in the hard corals and leathery soft corals.  Today, I am relieved to see many healthy, large, well-formed colonies of hard corals of various kinds. I was particularly glad to see large healthy colonies of Branching horn corals. I didn't see them on the Jul 2020 ...