A warm farewell to Dr. David Neidel

Our long time supporter and rainforest expert David Neidel has helped us tremendously for over five years on a lot of different areas of the project. David helped create the partnerships required to start a research project between both campuses, Singapore Botanic Gardens and Yale-NUS which was one of the most interesting undertakings this project has done and allowed us to learn the rigours of data collection and a lot more of the botanic science required for our work.

We would like to thank David Neidel especially for all of his amazing contributions to this project and helping to engage the student body through his informative presentations that were centered around reforestation techniques and the different factors that influence reforestation. David also helped us start our flourishing East campus nursery and contributed seeds and seedlings to project collected on his journeys in the region and Singapore. One of David's A Macaranga seedlings has just been planted at Dover Campus.

Due to his son graduating from East campus, David Neidel will be leaving Singapore for California. He will also be spending a lot of his time in the Philippines where he is set on continuing his restoration work. We look forward to when he comes back to visit and catching up.

The Rainforest Restoration Project wishes David and his family all the best!

Huge Thanks to the Foundation Parent Ambassadors

Adoption of a Tembusu tree (Fagraea fragrans) 

"Trees are poems the Earth writes upon the sky" (Kahil Gilbran)

The quote above was chosen by one of our fantastic Foundation Parent Ambassadors for the adoption of their family's tree on campus. This wonderful group have been an incredible help over the past year with spreading the Adopt-A-tree program throughout our parent community.

The program is one of the ways to support the projects we do by allowing us to put more funding towards increasing the biodiversity of trees we have on campus. As well as this, a lot of the funding will be used to develop the Dover Green Heart and Future Forest areas more. A lot of the most recent plantings we have done can be attributed directly to their help, many of them kindly choosing to adopt one for themselves and their families. Over the recent months, we have seen over a dozen trees adopted at both campuses!

Adopting a Hopea odorata

1 ATu plant a Macaranga in the Flood Pond

'A Singapore Sakura'(Cratoxylum formosum) to
 celebrate a graduation

A Tembusu gets a watering at adoption

Our first two Hopea helferi
thanks to one family

A second Pink Mempat (Cratoxylum formosum) 
watered in with affection

The Rainforest Restoration Project can't thank the Parent Ambassadors enough for their contributions. The trees that have helped plant and adopt are indeed writing beautiful poems on our Dover skies. We hope to work even more with them in the future!