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NRCS offers technical and financial assistance to farmers and ranchers. The financial assistance is authorized by the "Farm Bill", a law that is renewed every five years. The 2014 Farm Bill consolidated 23 programs into 15. [11] NRCS offers these services to private land owners, conservation districts, tribes, and other types of organizations.
With the vision of 'Limited Land, Unlimited Space', SLA is responsible for maximising Singapore's land resources, by: [4] Optimising land and space utilisation, Safeguarding property ownership, and; Promoting the use of land-space data through geospatial. SLA has two functional roles: developmental and regulatory.
Building conservation in Singapore is the responsibility of URA, which issued a Conservation Master Plan in 1989. This plan laid down guidelines and processes for the conservation of culturally and historically significant buildings. [2] More than 7000 buildings in Singapore have been gazetted as conserved buildings.
One of the first notions of nature reserves in Singapore was thought up by the then-Singapore Botanical Gardens Superintendent N. C. Cantley who, in 1882, proposed that select areas of land be preserved. In as early as 1883, the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (as it is now known) was established, making it the inaugural nature reserve in Singapore. [2]
Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, an important conservation area in Singapore. Singapore has also suffered an enormous loss in coral reefs as the result of extensive land and coastal development. [17] Prior to the land reclamation of the last several decades, Singapore's coral reefs covered an estimated 100 km 2 (39 sq mi). [19]
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A Development Guide Plan is then drawn up for each planning area, providing detailed planning guidelines for every plot of land throughout the country. [2] The planning areas were first introduced in the early 1990s after the release of the 1991 Concept Plan. [5]