​Monkey business: Youths aim to share love of nature, wildlife with others

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The article covered the Biodiversity Challenge, which aims to motivate, train and equip youths to engage their communities on issues surrounding human-wildlife interactions. Also mentioned in the article are the efforts of a group of final-year Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information students that are organising a campaign that consist of a campaign to promote Singapore’s natural heritage. The team also surveyed 400 university and polytechnic students and found 85 per cent of them had low awareness of nature reserves in Singapore — for instance, they did not know that these sites are gazetted and protected from development.

Of the respondents, 78 per cent also felt they “did not have sufficient knowledge about (Singapore’s) natural heritage”, but three-quarters were interested in finding out more.