The new channel is remarkable because it will be the first large diversion carrying river water to a submerging freshwater swamp forest. The project also showcases a new partnership between the U ...

Located southeast of Seletar Reservoir in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, the area is Singapore’s last remaining freshwater swamp forest. “We know very little about this species in the ...

The vampire crabs were found on the fruit of palm plants in a freshwater swamp forest in Thailand, researchers said. Ng, P., Yeesin, P. and Promdam, R. via Tropical Natural History While exploring ...

SINGAPORE - Work is under way to shore up the wild numbers of a rare crab species found only in and around Singapore’s last freshwater swamp forest. On Tuesday, 20 specimens of the critically ...

Priya Ranganathan’s first encounter with a Myristica swamp was back in 2019 when she was working as a research assistant at the Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the ...

Turn down one of the canals, and the forest canopy grew choppy ... said as the boat idled near a patchy area of swamp. The two-mile-long freshwater diversion will have a peak flow of 2,000 ...

It was the early 1990s, and the lake's freshwater swamp forest where he fished was so dense that it could take Sotharith, a former soldier, a day and a half to find the way back to his floating ...

destroying the forest. Decades later, the building of levees on the Mississippi River to prevent flooding cut off the swamp's freshwater supply, further deteriorating its vitality. The ongoing ...

The Sundarbans, the world’s biggest mangrove forest, and Tanguar Haor, a freshwater swamp forest, have been severely degraded by deforestation, hunting of wildlife and fish, overexploitation of ...

While exploring a freshwater swamp forest in Thailand in 2016, a group of researchers noticed something peculiar: a minuscule bright orange creature gripping onto the fruits of palm plants and ...