Mr How said NParks has introduced various measures to strengthen ecological connectivity over the years, including wildlife crossings such as Eco-Link@BKE and underground culverts. Speed-regulating strips and exclusion fencing have been installed along roads with higher animal sightings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will continue to explore solutions to reduce vehicular-wildlife collisions, such as leveraging technology, including artificial intelligence, to improve our monitoring of wildlife movements near roads to mitigate roadkill incidents,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He also urged the public not to feed sambar deer, noting there are sufficient food sources in the wild.<\/p>\n
Mr Lim’s group takes a direct approach to building public awareness \u2013 sharing deer sighting locations with those who ask, but with strict conditions: stay in the car, keep headlights off, stay quiet and do not get out.<\/p>\n
\u201cCoexistence is really not just about the animals adapting to us. It’s us having to make space for them as well,\u201d said Ms Chia.<\/p>\n
ON THE TRAIL<\/p>\n
The Save Sambar Deer initiative was founded in 2020 after Mr Lim, then working in real estate, stumbled upon a group of deer while hiking the Mandai T15 trail. Realising no one was actively advocating for the animals, he began spending extensive time in the forest documenting them.<\/p>\n
He now contributes about S$35,000 to S$50,000 annually to support the group’s work, which spans public outreach, field trips for tertiary students and a research centre in Indonesia under its parent organisation EcoWild Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr How said NParks has introduced various measures to strengthen ecological connectivity over the years, including wildlife crossings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,89708,137647,128,338],"class_list":["post-686372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-deer","tag-nparks","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}