Another top quality story telling documentary from CNA, thanks for assembling so many experts who all provided interesting snippets and take on the one big puzzle that is pulau serangoon/Coney Island
Enjoyed this episode. We have much to learn from nature. Big thank you to the people who raised objection to the authorities for Coney Island to be absorbed into a HDB development. We would have lost much of the history and idiosyncrasies of Coney Island.
Singapore used to have lots of casuarina trees not just in coney island (then Pulau Serangoon never known to have casuarina trees as described). During the late 1960s, As a young kid, I used to walk past rolls and rows of casuarina trees enroute to the primary school (May South Primary with May North Primary next to each ~ both no longer exist) I attended. In fact rubber trees and nutmeg trees once thrived in Singapore. In the name of progress, these has all but disappeared. The night sky in those days were filled with twinkling stars and after a down pour, you can even see fireflies dancing in patches of green that the lalang grass thrived. By the 1980s all the above scenery was long gone.
Where I used to live in the 70s around Joo Seng Road, from my kitchen window, I can see a small patch of ground with many Casurina trees. I used to pick the fruits and played with them. Boys from the few blocks of HDB flat around would make toy guns using small waste wood pieces picked from a nearby furniture-making shop. They had lots of fun using the casurina seeds as bullets to shoot each other.
Another top quality story telling documentary from CNA, thanks for assembling so many experts who all provided interesting snippets and take on the one big puzzle that is pulau serangoon/Coney Island
25:20 for why casurina dominates
Enjoyed this episode. We have much to learn from nature. Big thank you to the people who raised objection to the authorities for Coney Island to be absorbed into a HDB development. We would have lost much of the history and idiosyncrasies of Coney Island.
Lies again? Tree House
Good documentary. 👍🙂 TL;DR -> land reclamation and beneficial bacteria. 🥳 surprise 🥳 who would have thought it, in Singapore of all the places 🤷🏻♂️😂
Singapore used to have lots of casuarina trees not just in coney island (then Pulau Serangoon never known to have casuarina trees as described). During the late 1960s, As a young kid, I used to walk past rolls and rows of casuarina trees enroute to the primary school (May South Primary with May North Primary next to each ~ both no longer exist) I attended. In fact rubber trees and nutmeg trees once thrived in Singapore. In the name of progress, these has all but disappeared. The night sky in those days were filled with twinkling stars and after a down pour, you can even see fireflies dancing in patches of green that the lalang grass thrived. By the 1980s all the above scenery was long gone.
There are places that must be left to nature just to be nature. Enjoyed the film, greetings from Bolivia, La Paz.
Where I used to live in the 70s around Joo Seng Road, from my kitchen window, I can see a small patch of ground with many Casurina trees. I used to pick the fruits and played with them. Boys from the few blocks of HDB flat around would make toy guns using small waste wood pieces picked from a nearby furniture-making shop. They had lots of fun using the casurina seeds as bullets to shoot each other.
Really Nice Work on the Video
Thanks for sharing 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤ it’s so educational and knowledgeable 🤗👍❤️🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏
great story,enjoyed watching
WOW!!! Now I have a new perspective on Casuarina trees!
Dunman High School (DHS) 德明中学，have special relationship with Casuarina trees.
Since long time i was waiting for cna to release new video !!
Oh gosh! That was a coconut crab in 11:08... I didnt know we have that on the Coney Island during then.
Did anyone notice the coconut crab? You mean SG once had coconut crabs)
Yes, I caught the coconut crab in my bathroom. I lived in Ponggol, that’s how wild it could get in those days. 😊
The OutWard Bound School building there will destroy it. too bad.
…SINGAPORE’S BIRDS OF THE FUTURE THANK, THANK, THANK PSA FOR THEIR DECISION NOT TO DESTROY THEIR HABITAT, CONEY ISLAND!!!🎉👏🏻🎉👏🏻🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
CNA makes very interesting videos about Signapore. keep it up. truly appreciated.