2 students from Yusof Ishak Secondary win 2024 Community in Nature School Award

Poon Xi Song, 14, and Tiffany Chu, 15, shared the Student of the Year award 2024 for their effort to document the flora and fauna around the school

Xi Song even found a monitor lizard living within the school’s rain garden. Naming it Geronimo and recording its growth for a year, the avid naturalist told reporters: “I do not know if it is a male or female. Now that it’s fully grown, I could not check without putting myself in harm’s way.” “We like being outdoors and in nature. It is our passion learning about the different plants and animals around the school. Getting the award is a pleasant surprise and an added bonus,” Tiffany said.

The award was launched in 2020 to acknowledge and recognise schools, teachers and students who advocate for the conservation of local biodiversity.A two-time winner in the pre-school category, Far Eastern Kindergarten, integrates biodiversity into its daily teaching through nature walks, creating music and artwork to hone pupils’ curiosity and interest from an early age.

“During the Covid years, we looked into Singapore’s shortage of fish and chicken and our 30 by 30 initiative as well as ‘rewilding’ our city to bring back the lost animal and plant species.”is Singapore’s goal of ensuring 30 per cent of local food needs can be met from domestic production by 2030.

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