Century-old forest opens to the public in Singapore

Green thumbs: Students planting trees at the Learning Forest in Botanic Gardens. — The Straits Times/Asia News Network

SINGAPORE: A majestic 100-year-old Jurassic Park-like forest, complete with freshwater wetlands, has opened at the Botanic Gardens.

Called the Learning Forest, the US$30mil (RM132.5mil) project has reshaped a wild, dense and largely inaccessible century-old secondary forest into the first space in Singa­pore where the public can experience two habitats – wetland and lowland forests – in one venue.