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Desert elephants at the dried up Huab River in Namibia Female spraying sand to keep cool while standing guard over her calf, Damaraland, Namibia. Desert elephants or desert-adapted elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have made their homes in the Namib and Sahara deserts in Africa.
More than 3000 Singaporeans gathered at the Speakers' Corner, Singapore at Hong Lim Park for a non-partisan protest against the government's Population White Paper which projected a possible 6.9 million people in Singapore by 2030. 24 June: Haze in Singapore reaches 401 PSI, the worst in Singapore history. 8 December
The Heritage Roads scheme was implemented in 2001 by the Singapore government to identify and protect roads whereby there are lush road-side trees, often so dense that they create "green walls" and even "green tunnels". [1]
The desert bird assemblages have been studied in terms of their thermoregulation, coloration, breeding strategies and nomadism. The riverbeds and flatlands further away from the beaches are home to bush elephants , Chacma baboons , southern giraffe , lions , leopard , black rhinoceros , spotted and brown hyenas , gemsbok and springbok , among ...
Masked palm civet (Paguma larvata) LC [35] indeterminate [31] – Central Catchment [36] Pulau Tekong, possible escapee [10] (unverified sightings), Adam Road (roadkill in 2021) [37] Asian palm civet ( Paradoxurus hermaphroditus ) LC [ 38 ] – widespread across mainland Singapore in forests, woodlands, parks, and urban areas with trees, Pulau ...
An estimated 100 African elephants are killed every day by poachers seeking ivory, meat and body parts, leaving only 400,000 remaining, environmentalists estimate. Singapore crushes ivory from ...
There are numerous parks throughout the sovereign island country of Singapore.This is a list of parks in Singapore that currently exist and have articles on Wikipedia. Most parks in Singapore are managed by the National Parks Board, although smaller, neighbourhood parks are managed by the Housing Development Board.
Damaraland was a name given to the north-central part of South West Africa, which later became Namibia, inhabited by the Damaras. It was bordered roughly by Ovamboland in the north, the Namib Desert in the west, the Kalahari Desert in the east, and the Windhoek region in the south.