Habitat Enhancement & Restoration
Camphora works with master planners, architects and landscape architects to develop habitat enhancement and creation strategies to improve the quality of existing habitats within forests, freshwater water bodies, mangrove and marine ecosystems. Our habitat enhancement and design approaches prioritise increasing habitat, enhancing wildlife connectivity, improving ecological functions to try to achieve a net gain in biodiversity.
Habitat Enhancement, Creation & Design
Setting the objectives
Key to habitat enhancement and creation strategies is identifying the crucial ecological outcomes that are needed for the site. Camphora uses biodiversity baseline studies and literature reviews to identify gaps and understand the ecological potential of the prevailing site, including looking at Master Plans in adjacent sites and reviewing the need to future-proof green areas for connectivity.
Provide design consultancy
Camphora’s team of diverse flora, fauna and habitat specialists come together to provide rational, factual and science-based inputs to evolve ecological designs. Our team’s interdisciplinary experience and considerations in design, engineering, hydrology and construction allow us to contribute effectively to discussions and to derive practical and cost-efficient approaches to achieving the best ecological outcomes.
Monitoring
establishing habitats
Monitoring of establishing habitats is important to understand and gauge the effectiveness of the initial recommendations. Camphora has experience in devising scientific and robust processes to look at the growth or usage of floral or faunal species during the establishing periods. These monitoring regimes allow for real time observations to be integrated into ongoing deliberate measures to ensure the success of habitat enhancement initiatives.
Notable Projects
Yusof Ishak Secondary School
Jurong Lakeside Garden
Rifle Range Nature Park
Mangroves and intertidal shorelines are ecologically valuable habitats. The loss of mangroves has cascading impacts on ecological processes and diversity. Camphora’s range of competencies in mangrove habitats extends beyond identification of rare mangrove flora and fauna, to shoreline restoration works and collection and nursery propagation of mangrove propagules for installation on site.
Mangrove & Coastal Habitat Restoration
Assess habitat quality
We bring our passion for mangrove plants into our work capturing detailed flora and fauna information onsite in order to establish a comprehensive baseline assessment of mangrove habitat quality. This information is then used to influence developments at proximity to mangroves and to inform shoreline protection and restoration (SPR) measures.
Propose SPR measures
Large tree transplant
Mangrove and shoreline protection and restoration works are complicated and require assimilation of layers of information from a multitude of specialists including coastal engineers, hydrologists and modellers. Camphora gels this information with our broad understanding of mangrove plant characteristics (growth rates, propagation and establishment requirements) in order to achieve the best protection and restoration outcomes.
Our recommendations follow core principles of learning and working from nature and nature-based designs and solutions to address site-specific challenges of protecting mangroves and shorelines. Our baseline assessments help the incorporation of habitat enhancement strategies into the design of hard structures.
Notable Projects
Pulau Tekong Mangrove Restoration
Pulau Ubin Shoreline Works & Coastal Boardwalk
Baseline & Impact Assessment
CROSS ISLAND LINE PHASE 2 (On-going)
Client: Land Transport Authority
ENVIRONMENTAL BASELINE STUDY AT THE
LIM CHU KANG REGION (On-going)
Client: Singapore Food Agency
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AT
KEPPEL & SURROUNDING AREAS (2022)
Client: Housing and Development Board &
Urban Redevelopment Authority
SOUTHERN TENGAH/TENGAH TOWN (2021)
Client: Housing and Development Board
SENTOSA DEEP GRAVITY SEWER (2020)
Client: Sentosa Development Corporation
NANYANG PIPELINE (2020)
Client: Public Utilities Board
NEO TIEW LAND PREPARATION WORKS (2020)
Client: National Environment Agency
YISHUN NEIGHBOURHOOD 5 (2020)
Client: Housing and Development Board
MOUNT PLEASANT MASTER PLAN (2019)
Client: Housing and Development Board
MOUNT FABER FUNICULAR SYSTEM AND MASTER PLAN (2019)
Client: Mount Faber Leisure Group
SENTOSA ALPINE COASTER (2019)
Client: Sentosa Development Corporation
WOODLANDS NORTH COAST (2019)
Client: Housing and Development Board
BAHAR/ CLEANTECH PARK MASTER PLAN (2018)
Client: JTC Corporation
BROOKVALE FOREST (2018)
Client: Hoi Hup Realty
BULIM PHASE 2 MASTER PLAN (2018)
Client: JTC Corporation
PULAU SEMAKAU (2018)
Client: National Environment Agency
PULAU UBIN SHORELINE WORKS &
COASTAL BOARDWALK (2018)
Client: National Parks Board
SISTERS’ ISLAND MARINE PARK (2018)
Client: National Parks Board
SPRINGLEAF FOREST CONSERVATION PLANNING (2018)
Client: National Parks Board, Urban Redevelopment Authority
SUNGEI BULOH WETLAND RESERVE (2018)
Client: Singapore Police Force
JURONG ECO GARDEN (2017)
Client: JTC Corporation
THOMSON, BUKIT BATOK NATURE PARKS (2016)
Client: National Parks Board
RAPID TRANSPORT SYSTEM (2015)
Client: Land Transport Authority
Mangrove & Coastal Habitat Restoration
PULAU UBIN SHORELINE WORKS & COASTAL BOARDWALK (2018)
Client: National Parks Board
PULAU TEKONG MANGROVE RESTORATION (2009)
Client: Housing and Development Board
Arboriculture
ST ANDREW’S CATHEDRAL
(since 2012)
Arboriculture
Client: St Andrew’s Cathedral
CHANGI AIRPORT, TERMINAL 4 (2017)
Horticulture
Client: Changi Airport Group
TERMINAL 4 RAIN TREE TRANSPLANT (2016)
Arboriculture
Client: Changi Airport Group
PUNGGOL DIGITAL DISTRICT (2016)
Arboriculture
Client: JTC Corporation
THE SIENA (2014)
Arboriculture
Client: Far East Organisation
BISHAN-BRADDELL DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT WORKS (2014)
Arboriculture
Client: Public Utilities Board
BISHAN - ANG MO KIO PARK (2009)
Arboriculture and Horticulture
Client: Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl
BASF Learning Campus (2014)
Arboriculture
Client: BASF
Habitat Enhancement,
Creation & Design
BAY EAST (2019)
Client: Gardens by the Bay
HUDHUFUSHI RESORT, MALDIVES (2018)
Client: Salad Dressing
BIDADARI HDB C15 & 16 (2020)
Client: Housing and Development Board
RESEARCH ON MAINTENANCE OF URBAN
LANDSCAPES (2020)
Client: National University of Singapore
JURONG ECO GARDEN (2021)
Client: Ramboll Studio Dreisetl
RIFLE RANGE NATURE PARK (On-going)
Client: National Parks Board
YUSOF ISHAK SECONDARY SCHOOL (2018)
Client: Ministry of Education
Environmental Management & Monitoring
MANDAI RESORT (On-going)
Client: Mandai Park Holdings
MANDAI WEST ARRIVAL NODE & BIRD PARK
(On-going)
Client: Mandai Park Holdings
J107 (On-going)
Client: Land Transport Authority
RIFLE RANGE NATURE PARK (On-going)
Client: National Parks Board
BUKIT TIMAH GOLF COMPLEX (2020)
Client: Temasek Club
