By Trina Liang-Lin, President of Singapore Committee for UN Women, a non-profit organisation working towards women’s empowerment and gender equality through a wide range of public education programs, membership events and resource mobilisation activities. We, the Singapore Committee...

By Micah Sulit, who joined the Cat Welfare Society in January 2011. Her growing love for animals, vegetarianism, and volunteer work in animal welfare all began with a community cat. Whether you live in a private estate or a Housing Development Board (HDB) flat, you probably know of at least...

Many animals are intelligent and feel complex emotions like joy, happiness, depression and distress. Studies show that they have family bonds and feel true compassion for each other. Like us, animals have biological needs and experience pain, stress and discomfort. Every year billions of them...

By Jonathan Ngiam, a senior Project Officer of National Biodiversity Centre at National Parks Board. With a total land area of 723 km2 and a 511 km coastline, Singapore is one of the smallest countries in the world. However, her waters and coastline harbour a relatively rich marine...

It usually begins the same way. “Oooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooooooh Ooooooh Ooooooh Ooooooh”. You all know what it is. A greeting from the chimpanzees of the Gombe in Tanzania. It always generates a round of applause when it is uttered by 77 year old Dame Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, more...

By Michelle Kuek, who works in Outreach at the NUS Museum where she is actively involved in facilitating a vibrant museum culture on campus among students as well as exploring collaborations and opportunities between NUS Museum and the broader NUS Community. History of NUS Musuem Established...

By Rachel Lee, a sub-editor at a travel magazine during the day and the resident writer and occasional photographer for Noah’s Ark CARES by night. The hooves of the horses gallop in a rhythmic thump as they streak over the grass. The dogs weave unafraid in between their legs with their...

It started in Belgium in 2009, after Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, head of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, gave a talk in the Belgian city of Ghent. Dr Pachauri revealed in his talk that livestock production, mostly for food, accounts for about 18% of human...

by Jasmin Lee For most of my life, I never really thought about what I ate and where it came from. All I thought about was, ‘Does it taste good?’ However, after I started university in 2007, I began hearing about ethical consumerism and about being a conscious consumer of...

By Bhavani Prakash, a sustainability writer, speaker, trainer and consultant at ecowalkthetalk. Singapore is renowned as a Garden City, with clean and green landscaped streets and parks. Over the years, National Parks Board’s (Nparks) mission has evolved from realising a vision for...

By Ria Tan, just an ordinary person passionate about Singapore marine life. Active in marine issues, she regularly monitors about 40 Singapore seashore locations. She runs the wildsingapore website and is co-author of the Chek Jawa Guidebook. Alive! With reef galore, large seagrass meadows,...

By Iman Bibars of Egypt, a globally revered veteran social entrepreneur, women’s rights activist, and an Ashoka Vice President and Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. Her passionate mentorship of fellow social innovators ranges from one- on-one guidance for young...