Wetlands in a City: The Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
Chua Ee Kiam
Singapore: Simply Green, 2010
ISBN: 9789814270243

Wetlands in a City is a collaboration between National Parks Singapore (NParks) and Dr Chua Ee Kiam, a prolific nature photographer cum writer, to highlight the often-hidden wonders of the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (SBWR), a mangrove ecosystem located in the north-western part of Singapore. Over the years, much work has been done by NParks to develop and maintain it as a safe haven for several species of birds on their annual migration.

In this volume, the author documents the development of Sungei Buloh from its days as an agglomeration of prawn farms, fruit orchards and mangrove habitat to a gazetted Nature Park in 1989. He piques the reader's interest in this little-known area with stunning images of the migratory birds and other denizens of the mangrove swamp. Vivid colours of the flora and fauna, captured in the more than 360 photographs through various times of the day starting in the pre-dawn hours, bring a seemingly dull mangrove habitat to life.

Dr Chua Ee Kiam is one of Singapore's most passionate writer-photographer. A dentist by profession, he devotes many weekends to capturing the flora and fauna of Singapore's wetlands and nature reserves on photographs. Driven by the motivation to advance green consciousness among Singaporeans, he has committed countless hours to documenting the wildlife of urban Singapore and its environs. Readers of his books are frequently amazed at the variety of birds, insects and plants that can be found in developed Singapore.