The Central Catchment Nature Reserve is the largest nature reserve in Singapore, forming a large green lung in the geographical centre of the city. Concurrently acting as a catchment area for four reservoirs within its boundaries, it also houses several recreational sites, including the Singapore Zoological Gardens and the Night Safari, as well as several newer facilities built to encourage public appreciation of the reserve, such as the Jeluting Tower and the Tree-top Walk. A nature reserve is an area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research. ... A reservoir (French: réservoir) is an artificial lake created by flooding land behind a dam. ... Singapore Zoological Gardens operates two zoological parks in Singapore - Singapore Zoo and Night Safari. ... The Singapore Night Safari is described as the worlds first and only night-time safari park, and is one of the most popular tourist attraction in Singapore. ...
History
Although currently occupying what looks like a large expense of virgin forest, most of what constitutes the reserve today are actually secondary forest, retaking lands once devastated by timbering and cultivation activities. Only about 1 square kilometre of primary forests is left today. The building of Singapore's first reservoir, the MacRitchie Reservoir, in the southern edge of the present reserve prevented further destruction of forests lands. The reserve was greatly extended northwards with the building of another three reservoirs. Generally, a reservoir is something that can hold matter or energy. ... MacRitchie Reservoir is Singapores first reservoir. ...
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They range in distances from 3 km to 11 km, allowing nature lovers to experience as much or even as little of the naturereserves as they like.
Natural regeneration over the years has seen some of the original forest species recolonising, but it would take hundreds of years for the richness of a primary forest to form again.
This is because the centralcatchment area cum naturereserve is the very last stronghold of most of our native aquatic plant and animal species, many of which are rare or endangered.
Lead is not very soluble in water, but the water in the centralcatchmentreservoirs is probably slightly acidic (given the geology and soils of the area and the acid water streams that feed into the reservoirs) and may dissolve small amounts of lead off sinkers and other tackle.
Natural water courses continue to be turned into unsightly vertical-sided concrete drains or even completely covered over, and existing old concrete drains which have been sufficiently weathered and worn so that they can support diverse fish life continue to be "upgraded" which in practice means that they are degraded ecologically.
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