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Habitat Enhancement & Restoration

Rifle Range Nature Park development mockup by National Parks Board

Camphora works with master planners, architects and landscape architects to develop habitat enhancement and creation strategies to improve the quality of existing habitats within forests, freshwater water bodies, mangrove and marine ecosystems. Our habitat enhancement and design approaches prioritise increasing habitat, enhancing wildlife connectivity, improving ecological functions to try to achieve a net gain in biodiversity. 

Habitat Enhancement, Creation & Design

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Setting the objectives

Key to habitat enhancement and creation strategies is identifying the crucial ecological outcomes that are needed for the site. Camphora uses biodiversity baseline studies and literature reviews to identify gaps and understand the ecological potential of the prevailing site, including looking at Master Plans in adjacent sites and reviewing the need to future-proof green areas for connectivity.

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Provide design consultancy

Camphora’s team of diverse flora, fauna and habitat specialists come together to provide rational, factual and science-based inputs to evolve ecological designs. Our team’s interdisciplinary experience and considerations in design, engineering, hydrology and construction allow us to contribute effectively to discussions and to derive practical and cost-efficient approaches to achieving the best ecological outcomes.

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Monitoring
establishing habitats

Monitoring of establishing habitats is important to understand and gauge the effectiveness of the initial recommendations. Camphora has experience in devising scientific and robust processes to look at the growth or usage of floral or faunal species during the establishing periods. These monitoring regimes allow for real time observations to be integrated into ongoing deliberate measures to ensure the success of habitat enhancement initiatives.

Notable Projects

Yusof Ishak secondary school

Yusof Ishak Secondary School

Jurong Lake Gardens plants and walkway

Jurong Lakeside Garden

Rifle Range nature park and stream

Rifle Range Nature Park

Mangrove restoration

Mangroves and intertidal shorelines are ecologically valuable habitats. The loss of mangroves has cascading impacts on ecological processes and diversity. Camphora’s range of competencies in mangrove habitats extends beyond identification of rare mangrove flora and fauna, to shoreline restoration works and collection and nursery propagation of mangrove propagules for installation on site.

Mangrove & Coastal Habitat Restoration

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Assess habitat quality

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Propose SPR  measures

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Large tree transplant

We bring our passion for mangrove plants into our work capturing detailed flora and fauna information onsite in order to establish a comprehensive baseline assessment of mangrove habitat quality. This information is then used to influence developments at proximity to mangroves and to inform shoreline protection and restoration (SPR) measures.

Mangrove and shoreline protection and restoration works are complicated and require assimilation of layers of information from a multitude of specialists including coastal engineers, hydrologists and modellers. Camphora gels this information with our broad understanding of mangrove plant characteristics (growth rates, propagation and establishment requirements)  in order to achieve the best protection and restoration outcomes.

Our recommendations follow core principles of learning and working from nature and nature-based designs and solutions to address site-specific challenges of protecting mangroves and shorelines. Our baseline assessments help the incorporation of habitat enhancement strategies into the design of hard structures.  

Notable Projects

Mangrove nursary propogation

Pulau Tekong Mangrove Restoration

Rhizophora mangrove tree

Pulau Ubin Shoreline Works & Coastal Boardwalk

Baseline & Impact Assessment 

BAHAR/ CLEANTECH PARK MASTER PLAN

Client: JTC Corporation

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BUKIT BATOK NATURE CORRIDOR CONNECTIVITY

Client: National Parks Board

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BULIM PHASE 2 MASTER PLAN

Client: JTC Corporation

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C9175

Client: Land Transport Authority

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CLEMENTI STREAM

Client: National Parks Board

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CLIMATE CHANGE

Client: Public Utilities Board

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CROSS ISLAND LINE PHASE 2

Client: Land Transport Authority

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ENVIRONMENTAL BASELINE STUDY AT THE

LIM CHU KANG REGION

Client: Singapore Food Agency

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AT

KEPPEL & SURROUNDING AREAS

Client: Housing and Development Board &

Urban Redevelopment Authority

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JURONG ECO GARDEN

Client: JTC Corporation

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LIM CHU KANG MASTER PLAN

Client: Singapore Food Agency

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MOUNT FABER FUNICULAR SYSTEM AND MASTER PLAN

Client: Mount Faber Leisure Group  

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MOUNT PLEASANT MASTER PLAN

Client: Housing Development Board

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NANYANG PIPELINE

Client: Public Utilities Board

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NEO TIEW LAND PREPARATION WORKS

Client: National Environment Agency

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PULAU SEMAKAU

Client: National Environment Agency  

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PULAU UBIN SHORELINE WORKS &

COASTAL BOARDWALK

Client: National Parks Board

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RAPID TRANSPORT SYSTEM

Client: Land Transport Authority

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SENTOSA ALPINE COASTER

Client: Sentosa Development Corporation

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SENTOSA DEEP GRAVITY SEWER

Client: Sentosa Development Corporation

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SISTERS’ ISLAND MARINE PARK

Client: National Parks Board

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SPRINGLEAF FOREST CONSERVATION PLANNING

Client: National Parks Board, Urban Redevelopment Authority

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SUNGEI BULOH WETLAND RESERVE

Client: Singapore Police Force  

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TENGAH SOUTH AND CHOA CHU KANG

Client: Housing and Development Board

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THOMSON, BUKIT BATOK NATURE PARKS

Client: National Parks Board 

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WOODLANDS NORTH COAST

Client: Housing and Development Board

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YISHUN NEIGHBOURHOOD 5

Client: Housing and Development Board

Mangrove & Coastal Habitat Restoration 

PULAU TEKONG MANGROVE RESTORATION

Client: Housing  and Development Board

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PULAU UBIN SHORELINE WORKS & COASTAL BOARDWALK

Client: National Parks Board

Arboriculture & Horticulture Assessments

BASF Learning Campus

Arboriculture

Client: BASF 

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BISHAN-BRADDELL DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT WORKS

Arboriculture

Client: Public Utilities Board

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BISHAN - ANG MO KIO PARK

Arboriculture and Horticulture

Client: Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl

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CHANGI AIRPORT, TERMINAL 4

Horticulture

Client: Changi Airport Group

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TERMINAL 4 RAIN TREE TRANSPLANT

Arboriculture

Client: Changi Airport Group

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OASIA DOWNTOWN RESORT

Arboriculture

Client: Far East

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PASIR RIS PARK

Arboriculture

Client: Housing and Development Board

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PUNGGOL DIGITAL DISTRICT

Arboriculture

Client: JTC Corporation

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ST ANDREW’S CATHEDRAL

Arboriculture

Client: St Andrew’s Cathedral

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THE SIENA

Arboriculture

Client: Far East Organisation 

Habitat Enhancement,
Creation & Design

BAY EAST

Client: Gardens by the Bay 

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BIDADARI HDB C15 & 16

Client: Housing and Development Board

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GROUND UP INITIATIVE CAMPUS

Client: Ground Up Initiative

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HUDHUFUSHI RESORT, MALDIVES

Client: Salad Dressing

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JURONG ECO GARDEN

Client: Ramboll Studio Dreisetl

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LTA CR15 MARSH CREATION

Client: Land Transport Authority

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PANGSUA CANAL

Client: Public Utilities Board

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RIFLE RANGE NATURE PARK

Client: National Parks Board

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RESEARCH ON MAINTENANCE OF URBAN 

LANDSCAPES

Client: National University of Singapore

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TENGAH BLUE AND GREEN MASTERPLAN

Client: Kulen Property Group

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YUSOF ISHAK SECONDARY SCHOOL

Client: Ministry of Education

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Environmental Management & Monitoring
 

BUKIT TIMAH GOLF COMPLEX

Client: Temasek Club

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J107

Client: Land Transport Authority

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CROSS ISLAND LINE

Client: Mandai Park Holdings

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LTA CROSS ISLAND LINE CR2016

Client: Jin Choon Civil Engineering Pte Ltd

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LTA CROSS ISLAND LINE CR101

Client: China Jingye Engineering Cooperation

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LTA INTEGRATED TRAIN TESTING CENTRE

Client: GS Engineering and Construction Cooperation

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MANDAI RESORT

Client: Mandai Park Holdings

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MANDAI WEST ARRIVAL NODE & BIRD PARK 

Client: Mandai Park Holdings

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OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL @ CONEY ISLAND

Client: Tiong Seng Contractors Pte Ltd

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RIFLE RANGE NATURE PARK

Client: National Parks Board

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