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Sengkang Floating Wetland. On 7 November 2010, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong officially opened the floating wetland that is designed with a "fruitful" theme. The wetland is about half the size of a football field, and connects the Sengkang Riverside Park with the Sengkang Sports Centre.
These park connectors are also linked to the Coney Island Park in Punggol New Town and Punggol Park in Hougang. An artificial floating island has been constructed in the middle of the river in the Sengkang part of the river. The Sengkang Riverside Park, which opened in November 2008, is situated beside the Sungei Punggol.
The western portion consists of parts of the Central Catchment Nature Reserve, while in the northeastern corner, it borders the Straits of Johor with two reclaimed islands, Pulau Punggol Barat and Pulau Punggol Timor. The northeast also includes the Sengkang Floating Wetland. This GRC has 5 wards: Teck Ghee, Cheng San- Seletar, Fernvale, Jalan ...
The 100-square-foot installation in Roger Williams Park is the first floating wetland in Rhode Island. Alexandra Ionescu, another member of the collective, describes these manmade wetlands as a ...
Floating island La Rota in Posta Fibreno lake, Italy. Natural floating islands are composed of vegetation growing on a buoyant mat of plant roots or other organic detritus. In aquatic regions of Northwestern Europe, several hundred hectares or a couple thousand acres of floating meadows (German Schwingrasen, Dutch trilveen) have been preserved, which are partly used as agricultural land ...
Wetlands are a defining feature of South Florida’s ecosystem in the Everglades, and free-floating native plants like duckweed and water hyacinth filter out the nitrogen and supply oxygen to the ...
Japan's tourism has exploded in recent years, with a record 36.8 million visitors in 2024. The weak yen has drawn visitors to Japan, which is already experiencing overtourism impacts.
A new 26 km nature loop which links up four parks in Sengkang and Punggol was officially opened on February 25, 2012, connecting Sengkang Riverside Park, Punggol Park, Punggol Waterway Park and Punggol Point Park, allowing visitors to cycle, skate or jog to the next park.