Species seen at the Eco-Link@BKE include the Sunda slow loris, lesser mousedeer, dubious bar flitter and Horsfield’s flying squirrel.
Between 1994 and March 2014, an average of two critically endangered Sunda pangolins were hit by vehicles in the BKE area each year. Others killed on the roads included the common palm civet, long-tailed macaque, wild boar and a number of reptile species. A first of its kind in South-east Asia, the 62m-long bridge for animals was built to alleviate a major problem for native wildlife in urbanised Singapore – the fragmentation of habitats.
The solution was to let the wildlife at both nature reserves mix, and the forest-like Eco-Link@BKE enabled that. While the mousedeer was known to reside only in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, it was sighted in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve in 2021 for the first time, suggesting that the species expanded its range using the bridge.Between 2018 and 2021, 31 unexpected butterfly, bird and mammal species also made appearances at the Eco-Link@BKE. These included the Horsfield’s flying squirrel, Malayan colugo – recognisable by its wide, round eyes – the Sunda slow loris and the red-crowned barbet bird.
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