The Big Trees at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
You got a glimpse of the big trees in Bukit Timah last week. If you were wondering where they all are, take a look at the map below from the
The Big Trees blog. The cyan dots represent
Shorea spp. trees bigger than 30 cm in diameter, one of the main indicators of primary forest.
The team that has been working for more than 2.5 years on a survey in the 164-ha Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. They tagged, measured, mapped, and identified 10,200 trees in a ca. 140-ha continuous closed-canopy forest.