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SINGAPORE – A wide, forested bridge stretching across Mandai Lake Road forms a nearly seamless safe passage for wildlife between the wooded areas on both sides of the road.
Launched on Friday (Dec 6) after 2½ years of construction, the Mandai Wildlife Bridge “stitches together the Central Catchment Nature Reserve (CCNR) and provides a safe passage for our local wildlife”, said Mr Mike Barclay, group chief executive of Mandai Park Holdings (MPH).
For the first time in 60 years since Mandai Lake Road was built, cutting the forest environment in two, critters such as pangolins, colugos and lesser mousedeer trying to get from one side to the other side no longer need to do so at their peril.
The 140m-long bridge is aimed at reducing the number of roadkill incidents in the Mandai Precinct, which MPH is developing into an integrated nature and wildlife destination.
Mr Barclay said the animal-only bridge was the organisation’s “first stride towards rejuvenating Mandai into an integrated nature and wildlife precinct.” MPH declined to disclose the cost of the bridge.
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