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Featuring: Froggy Friends Gurney's Pitta Baya Weavers Cyrene Reefs Official Magazine of Nature Society (Singapore) Volume 17 No 3 Jul-Sep 2009 Featuring: Froggy Friends Gurney’s Pitta Baya Weavers Cyrene Reefs Galapagos MICA (P) 225/07/2009 Message from Editor Contents Volume 17 No 3, Jul-Sep 2009 Editor-in-chief hen I took over as editor of Nature Watch in June 2009 my first priorities Froggy Gurney’s Morten Strange were to catch up with the backlog of issues and research content, as well as Patron Friends Pitta Professor Tommy Koh co-ordinate with a new production crew. The not-so-envious task of finding 2 8 Acting Assistant Editor Wsomeone to do proofreading and style editing of language became second priority; I sim- Margie Hall President Dr Shawn Lum ply couldn’t find anyone within the society to help me on such a short notice. Designer Vice-President So, for the first three issues, Volumes 16/4, 17/1 and 17/2, I sent my edited text to S.T. Leng Mr Leong Kwok Peng my son Daniel, who is a student of English at Aarhus University in Denmark. The next Immediate Past President morning I would always have the cleaned file back in the mail. But even though the sys- Contributing Writers, Photographers Dr Geh Min tem worked well for me, it wasn’t quite right. Remember what happened to the President and Illustrators Honorary Secretary of France Nicolas Sarkozy when he made use of his son at work? Nepotism accusations Con Foley, Leong Tzi Ming, Bjorn Lynggaard Ms Margie Hall flew around fast and furious. To preempt that, I needed someone within the society with Olesen, Morten Strange, Tan Gim Cheong, Ria Tan Honorary Treasurer distinguished language skills, as well as knowledge about NSS matters and Asian nature Mr Soon Tze Chien in general. Printing by Utopia Press Pte Ltd Honorary Legal Adviser Now we have found such a person. Mr Vinayagan Dharmarajah Honorary Secretary Margie Hall has MICA (P) 225/07/2009 Executive Committee Members involved herself in Nature Watch from the Mr Goh Si Guim start, and rather than have her nitpick on XXXXXXXXXXXX Copyright belongs to the authors. All rights Dr Ho Hua Chew Photo: reserved. No part of this publication may Dr Hsu Chia Chi the issues after they are printed, as Assistant Editor she will now have a better chance be reproduced in any form or any means Finance Committee Members to nitpick BEFORE the presses roll. Please without prior permission from Nature Society Ms Ching Chabo (Singapore) in writing. Ms Evelyn Ng welcome Margie to the NW team and feel Co-opted Council Members free to approach her with comments and The views and opinions expressed or implied Assoc Professor P N Avadhani ideas. Sorry, my mistake, I have to label her in this publication are those of the authors Mr Stephen Lau only and contributors and do not necessarily Mr Tan Hang Chong Acting Assistant Editor to underline the When not hitting the English books, Daniel Mr Soo Choon Kiat non-permanent role of her involvement. likes to go for a stroll. Here he walks past reflect the official views of the Nature Society th.... (Singapore) or its members. NSS Advisory Council Members For this issue we have a strong lineup of Filename was cut off Mr Iain Ewing, Mr Richard Hale, qualified and capable contributors. All are Mr Warren Khoo, Prof Koh Kheng Lian, Mr Kwek Leng Joo, Mr Lim Jim Koon, talented and experienced nature photographers as well as knowledgeable writers, so both Advertisements Mr Liu Thai Ker, Prof Ng Soon Chye, the visual and textual content will have a lot of impact this time around. To advertise in Nature Watch contact: Mr Sim Wong Hoo, Mr Mason Tan Leong Tzi Ming is a gifted all-round zoologist, and in this issue he covers his spe- Justin Wong, Executive Officer BirdLife International Coordinator cial interest in frogs, while Tan Gim Cheong travels to southern Thailand to check on [email protected] Mr Willie Foo the current status of the most wanted bird in the country. Con Foley shares with us his HP: 9108 5576 NSS SUB-GROUP CHAIRPERSONS new amazing action photos while studying the nesting habits of the Baya Weavers in Bird Ecology Study Group Singapore; particularly appropriate now that this species adorn the back cover of the Cyrene Or: Dr Wee Yeow Chin magazine. Ria Tan might be well-known by most members of the NSS, but even then, 17 Reefs Nature Society (Singapore) office at: Bird Group her material from Cyrene Reef is fresh and significant. I bet many readers still didn’t know Mr Alan Owyong 510 Geylang Road of this exceptional coral habitat so close to the harbour. After a visit to Galapagos, Bjorn The Sunflower #02-05 Butterfly Interest Group Olesen reflects on these special islands as a case-story for eco-tourism. Singapore 389466 Mr Gan Cheong Weei Galapagos Tel: (65) 6741 2036 Education Group 22 Fax: (65) 6741 0871 Ms Gloria Seow MORTEN STRANGE E-mail: [email protected] Editor-in-chief Marine Conservation Group Website: www.nss.org.sg Mr Edzra Iskandar December 2009 Advertising rates (full colour): Plant Group Full page: S$2,000 Ms Angie Ng Share with us 1⁄2 Page: S$1,000 The Nature Ramblers Your stories, articles, surveys, observations and brilliant photographs and send them to the 2/3 page: S$800 Mr Rehan Yusoff address on page 1. If you are not sure, please send an e-mail to [email protected] with a pro- 1/3 page: S$500 Vertebrate Study Group posal and we will get back to you. Articles can be e-mailed across as a simple Word document Mr Subaraj Rajathurai (no funny fonts or colours or inserts, please) or saved on a CD and mailed with the illustrations 15% discount for four insertions. as separate high res. files. Digital pictures must be in 300 dpi, absolutely sharp and as large as Conservation Committee possible, jpeg compression is OK. Do NOT crop, brighten or sharpen, we will do all that as Mr Leong Kwok Peng (Acting Chair) necessary. Thank you very much. Nature News Editorial Committee Nature Watch is printed on HannoArt Ms Gloria Seow paper from Sappi Fine Paper Europe Mr Timothy Pwee Baya with ISO 14001 environmental manage- Mr Goh Si Guim This issue of Nature Watch is generously sponsored by 14 Weavers ment certification. Mainly recycled paper NSS Secretariat is used, the rest is pulp from sustain- Mr Justin Wong (Executive Officer) City Developments Limited able and controlled sources in Finland, Mr Joseph Lim (Accounts & Membership ON THE COVER Spotted Treefrog (Nyctixalus pictus) Photo by Leong Tzi Ming Sweden and other European countries. Officer) 2 Nature Watch Jul - Sep 2009 Jul - Sep 2009 Nature Watch 1 WILDLIFE Facing the Future with our Froggy Friends Text and photos by Leong Tzi Ming For Leong Tzi Ming, frogs are his first love. In this account he reveals how he became enamoured of amphibians and why we need to save them. As an excellent photographer as well as a scientist, he also shows us some of his intimate studies of frogs from Singapore and Malaysia. ace to face with a superbly in the region, I have had opportunities (3) Collection from the Wild, (4) camouflaged Thorny Treefrog to become acquainted with the vari- Competition from Invasive Species, (Theloderma horridum) at Bukit ous frog fauna of Malaysia, Indonesia, (5) Constriction of Existing Habitats, Timah Nature Reserve back Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Philippines, and (6) Contamination of Pristine Spotted Treefrog (Nyctixalus pictus) inF March 1996, it suddenly dawned Sri Lanka and also Australia. Getting Environment (Leong, 2008). upon me that this species had never my hands and feet wet in the streams Spotted Stream Frog (Rana signata) been previously recorded in Singapore! and swamps of these countries has Curse of the six C’s Shortly after, it was officially recognised allowed me to see eye to eye with their First and foremost, the ill effects of as the fourth species of Treefrog (Family endemic frog species, and I cannot climate change presents a serious threat Rhacophoridae) for Singapore’s amphib- ignore the worry in those bulging eyes to the livelihood of numerous amphib- ian checklist (Leong et al., 1996). As – a fear that their days on earth may be ians, whose survival and reproduction a result of sustained field research in numbered. are intimately reliant upon local and our forests, yet another frog species, regional weather patterns. Any drastic Microhyla borneensis was added to the International frog focus deviation from the once predictable list in the following year (Leong & As some of us might recall, 2008 was seasonal rains may throw their breeding Chou, 1997). To have found two new officially declared the ‘Year of the Frog’, patterns out of synchrony. In addition, frogs consecutively was indeed a bonus a conservation cause promoted by the the predicted trends of global warming for Singapore’s biodiversity, and encour- Amphibian Ark, with support from the would push many species of montane aged me to commit more of my time Amphibian Specialist Group (ASG). amphibians closer the edge of extinc- and energy to researching our indige- This yearlong event was a response to tion, as their preferred requirements of nous amphibians in order to save them. the reports of scientists of the simulta- cool, moist rainforests are systematically Additionally, my fascination with the neous decline and disappearance of vari- restricted to the highest summits. One morphology and metamorphosis of tad- ous frog species all around the globe in example of such a potentially endan- poles has led me to channel my research the last two decades.
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