Eco-Friendly Children of Singapore

For the last two years, the Cicada Tree Eco Place has been conducting nature walks and outdoor seminars on everything from snakes, to meat eating plants, to beetles and toads. The non-profit organization has teamed up with Bukit Timah Society to create educational programs stressing the need to care for and preserve the environment and the inhabitants of that environment. Swamps have been cleared for construction, previous the fresh waters were home to a variety of native species. This Area of Singapore not only supports, but requires the help of all in the society, from the children to the businesses to the luxury Singapore hotels. And what the founders of Cicada Tree believe, is that to create an empathy for the environment, one must start while the children are still young. In order for people to care about and protect the inhabitants of the world, they must find respect for them, and educations is the vehicle for that respect.

The three founders of the environmental group, which started teaching classes in 2007, met as participating members of of the Nature Society of Singapore. NSS began, also a non-profit organizations dedicated to the preservation of the environment and the native plants, insects and mammals of the island and the island’s rain forest, in 1940. Celine Low, Teresa Guttensohn and Vilma D’ Rozario were educators wanted to bring their gifts and talents to the children of the city-state. By introducing, at a young age the natural heritage of the city and it’s wildlife, they believe that they will foster life long co-conspirators, children who will grow to not only see the plants and animals, but will continue to teach as they grow as well. Cicada Tree Eco-Place believes that to foster this dedication, requires the get them while they are young, view. For once people overcome their fear of the natural world, fear of bugs and reptiles, they will be determined to protect theses species. Traveling around to various schools in the city, they take classes on outdoore hikes and lectures.

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