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WRS’s Landscape Management

Practices, Productivity &

Innovations

Presenter: Mr George Kyaw

Director (Horticulture)

Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS)

Horticulture

WSH (Landscape) Forum 2018

Dated 27 July 2018

Garden By the Bay

• WRS function and activities

• Landscape Management

• Safety Management

• Productivity, Innovation & Sustainable Practices

• Potential Contracts opportunities

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Content

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3,500 birds 2,400 specimens

100 species

900 animals

260 species

More than 8,700

aquatic and

terrestrial animals

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WRS function and activities

Horticulture

• Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) is the holding company of award-

winning attractions Jurong Bird Park, Night Safari, River Safari and

Singapore Zoo.

• WRS is dedicated to the management of world-class leisure attractions

that foster conservation and research while educating visitors about

animals and their habitats.

• A self-funded organisation, WRS also collaborates with various partners,

organisations and institutions aimed to protect local and global biodiversity

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Landscape Management-

Horticulture Department

Horticulture

The Horticulture department in WRS aim to promote parks development that

provides the guests with memorable experience combining conservation,

educational and recreational opportunities through sustainable landscape

design and planting based on natural environment setting for fauna habitats

and human social benefit.

The team consists of ISA Certified Arborists (CA),Certified tree climbers,

Certified Practising Horticulturists (CPH) and Landscape architects that

oversee daily operations like tree pruning, crown reduction, planting and exhibit

landscape design.

While some of our works (e.g. arboriculture) are outsourced, we do have in-

house gardeners who carry out daily routine operational works.

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Daily routine works

Arboriculture: A certified tree climber and

arborist checking a Khaya tree at

Singapore Zoo during tree inspection.

Turf

Management:

An inhouse

gardener

carryout out

grasscutting

utilising

battery

operated

grasscutting

machine.

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Fodder as food source for living

collections

Thysostachys siamensis Phyllostachys sulphurea Bambusa ventricosa

Example: Growing a variety of bamboo species as

natural diet for our pandas

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Sustainable practices Shredding of

horticulture waste

(e.g Bahpia foliage)

for mulching and

composting in our

parks.

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Sustainable practicesRecycling of felled

wood from snapped

branches and tree

removal into park

furniture.

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Sustainable practices

Examples of furniture

made from wood

salvaged from felled

trees within WRS

placed at Mandai

corporate offices.

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Project implementation

Planting works at New Civet Exhibit, NS

Before planting

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Planting works at Reptopia, SZG

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Planting works at Fragrant Walk, NS

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Planting works of Iconic tree for SZG

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Blue Macaws Project at JBP


Project Implementation

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Safety Management-Policy

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Safety Management-Risk

Assessment Form

Standard SOP:

Risk assessment for

work activities are

reviewed on a 2

years basis

Toolbox meeting will be

carried out for workers

before commencement of

horticulture operations.

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Safety Management-

Toolbox Meeting

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Safety Management-

Staff Training Staff frequently send for training: WRS arborist attending works at height for

supervisors as they supervise pruning works (e.g. use of lorry crane or tree

climbers for tree pruning) on a regular basis.

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Innovation-Equipment

Increase productivity through

mechanisation with environmentally

friendly equipment: Purchasing

equipment(e.g chainsaw) which does not

run on diesel and are battery operated.

User friendly equipment: The battery

operated chainsaw emits a significantly

lesser vibration which is much

beneficial to the user in the long run

especially during period of heavy

usage.

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Innovation- Sustainability

No Carbon emission

No chemicals

User friendly

Less noise

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Innovation-Mobile applicationsIncreasing productivity: Establishing mobile applications (apps) to carry out

tree inspections within WRS. Gone are the days of using Visual Tree

Assessment(VTA) paper checklist which can be cumbersome.

Export inspection

checklist into PDF

or files in other

format as

documentation

List of

trees

inventory

Tree plotted on

the map

accurate to geo

location tag

Using technology to assist in inspection methodology: Carrying out test

bedding of drone usage to carry out aerial inspection of trees within WRS. The

drone can access hard to reach places that are out of the line of sight

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Innovation-Drone Test bedding

Aerial view of rain tree crown near the

entrance of Singapore Zoo

Cavity found on the rain tree branch near

the top of its crown

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Innovation-Determine threshold

level to Maintenance regime

Formulating template to determine threshold level in relation to maintenance regime within WRS Parks. This

will allow for increase productivity and for a proper system to be established for daily operations

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Potential Contracts

opportunities

• Currently WRS consists of 4 parks namely Jurong Bird Park, Night Safari,

River Safari and Singapore Zoo.

• In addition, from 2020 onwards, there will be a new rainforest park and

the existing Jurong Bird Park will be relocated to Mandai.

• All this parks will requires cyclic horticultural, arboricultural and turf

maintenance services.

• Other services include set up for landscape decorations and thematic

landscape projects within WRS.

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Potential Contracts

opportunities Arboriculture: Tree pruning/removal, deadwooding and crown reduction works

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Potential Contracts

opportunities Horticulture: Shrub pruning, planting and mulching (e.g.)

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Potential Contracts

opportunities Turf management : Grasscutting

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Potential Contracts

opportunities Plant decorations: Supply plants and set up landscape decorations for events

Potential Contracts

opportunities

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Potential Contracts

opportunities Landscape projects : Thematic gardens (e.g Dragonfly pond, Butterfly aviary)

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