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
Propose SPR measures
Large tree transplant
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.
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
BAHAR/ CLEANTECH PARK MASTER PLAN
Client: JTC Corporation
BUKIT BATOK NATURE CORRIDOR CONNECTIVITY
Client: National Parks Board
BULIM PHASE 2 MASTER PLAN
Client: JTC Corporation
C9175
Client: Land Transport Authority
CLEMENTI STREAM
Client: National Parks Board
CLIMATE CHANGE
Client: Public Utilities Board
CROSS ISLAND LINE PHASE 2
Client: Land Transport Authority
ENVIRONMENTAL BASELINE STUDY AT THE
LIM CHU KANG REGION
Client: Singapore Food Agency
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AT
KEPPEL & SURROUNDING AREAS
Client: Housing and Development Board &
Urban Redevelopment Authority
JURONG ECO GARDEN
Client: JTC Corporation
LIM CHU KANG MASTER PLAN
Client: Singapore Food Agency
MOUNT FABER FUNICULAR SYSTEM AND MASTER PLAN
Client: Mount Faber Leisure Group
MOUNT PLEASANT MASTER PLAN
Client: Housing Development Board
NANYANG PIPELINE
Client: Public Utilities Board
NEO TIEW LAND PREPARATION WORKS
Client: National Environment Agency
PULAU SEMAKAU
Client: National Environment Agency
PULAU UBIN SHORELINE WORKS &
COASTAL BOARDWALK
Client: National Parks Board
RAPID TRANSPORT SYSTEM
Client: Land Transport Authority
SENTOSA ALPINE COASTER
Client: Sentosa Development Corporation
SENTOSA DEEP GRAVITY SEWER
Client: Sentosa Development Corporation
SISTERS’ ISLAND MARINE PARK
Client: National Parks Board
SPRINGLEAF FOREST CONSERVATION PLANNING
Client: National Parks Board, Urban Redevelopment Authority
SUNGEI BULOH WETLAND RESERVE
Client: Singapore Police Force
TENGAH SOUTH AND CHOA CHU KANG
Client: Housing and Development Board
THOMSON, BUKIT BATOK NATURE PARKS
Client: National Parks Board
WOODLANDS NORTH COAST
Client: Housing and Development Board
YISHUN NEIGHBOURHOOD 5
Client: Housing and Development Board
Mangrove & Coastal Habitat Restoration
PULAU TEKONG MANGROVE RESTORATION
Client: Housing and Development Board
PULAU UBIN SHORELINE WORKS & COASTAL BOARDWALK
Client: National Parks Board
Arboriculture & Horticulture Assessments
BASF Learning Campus
Arboriculture
Client: BASF
BISHAN-BRADDELL DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT WORKS
Arboriculture
Client: Public Utilities Board
BISHAN - ANG MO KIO PARK
Arboriculture and Horticulture
Client: Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl
CHANGI AIRPORT, TERMINAL 4
Horticulture
Client: Changi Airport Group
TERMINAL 4 RAIN TREE TRANSPLANT
Arboriculture
Client: Changi Airport Group
OASIA DOWNTOWN RESORT
Arboriculture
Client: Far East
PASIR RIS PARK
Arboriculture
Client: Housing and Development Board
PUNGGOL DIGITAL DISTRICT
Arboriculture
Client: JTC Corporation
ST ANDREW’S CATHEDRAL
Arboriculture
Client: St Andrew’s Cathedral
THE SIENA
Arboriculture
Client: Far East Organisation
Habitat Enhancement,
Creation & Design
BAY EAST
Client: Gardens by the Bay
BIDADARI HDB C15 & 16
Client: Housing and Development Board
GROUND UP INITIATIVE CAMPUS
Client: Ground Up Initiative
HUDHUFUSHI RESORT, MALDIVES
Client: Salad Dressing
JURONG ECO GARDEN
Client: Ramboll Studio Dreisetl
LTA CR15 MARSH CREATION
Client: Land Transport Authority
PANGSUA CANAL
Client: Public Utilities Board
RIFLE RANGE NATURE PARK
Client: National Parks Board
RESEARCH ON MAINTENANCE OF URBAN
LANDSCAPES
Client: National University of Singapore
TENGAH BLUE AND GREEN MASTERPLAN
Client: Kulen Property Group
YUSOF ISHAK SECONDARY SCHOOL
Client: Ministry of Education
Environmental Management & Monitoring
BUKIT TIMAH GOLF COMPLEX
Client: Temasek Club
J107
Client: Land Transport Authority
CROSS ISLAND LINE
Client: Mandai Park Holdings
LTA CROSS ISLAND LINE CR2016
Client: Jin Choon Civil Engineering Pte Ltd
LTA CROSS ISLAND LINE CR101
Client: China Jingye Engineering Cooperation
LTA INTEGRATED TRAIN TESTING CENTRE
Client: GS Engineering and Construction Cooperation
MANDAI RESORT
Client: Mandai Park Holdings
MANDAI WEST ARRIVAL NODE & BIRD PARK
Client: Mandai Park Holdings
OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL @ CONEY ISLAND
Client: Tiong Seng Contractors Pte Ltd
RIFLE RANGE NATURE PARK
Client: National Parks Board
