Great news! Kinabatangan in Sabah has been recognised as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. It is now one of the four Biosphere Reserves we have in Malaysia. malaysiagazette.com/2025/09/28/kin…

A 46-year-old local man has been arrested at KLIA last night while attempting to smuggle a gibbon and two cuscus worth RM20,000 in his luggage. The suspect, who was bound for Mumbai, is being investigated under the Wildlife Conservation Act and the International Trade in

Herbarium digitisation starting soon…unpacking the imaging belt and associated kit underway at Botany Centre, Singapore Botanic Gardens. The whole process will be done in a public viewing gallery. #SBGScience National Parks Board Picturae_INT

Belt!

Marking 125 years of #EJBotany #OpenAccess and its forerunner, Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, we are delighted to announce that ALL content is now freely available at journals.rbge.org.uk/notes and journals.rbge.org.uk/ejb

Basically they are not allowing anyone to take LRT Taman Jaya anymore because there are too many people. The buses are crowded too. Grab rides are of course, expensive at this hour. Macam bodoh.

CONGRATULATIONS to Venezuelan Democracy Campaigner Maria Corina Machado for being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2025!!!! 👏👏👏👏 #NobelPeacePrize

Global fish delivery....

Pleased to share that a new volume of the magazine has been published online. Gardenwise is open access and all volumes published since 1989 can be downloaded for free here: nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research/p… National Parks Board

Researchers describe and illustrate 𝐺𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑗𝑖𝑢𝑧ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑔𝑜𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new epiphytic orchid from Jiuzhaigou World Heritage Site, China. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phytok…

Project started up 2 years ago - now we have a chromosome-level genome assembly for the carnivorous bladderwort plant Utricularia macrorhiza. One additional polyploidy event past its split with Utricularia gibba

Final leg of my hiking trip… exploring one of the majestic Chiku mountains and stumbled upon populations of #Impatiens chikuensis, a hyper-endemic #balsam known only from the karst mountain in Kelantan, #PeninsularMalaysia 🇲🇾

Come along with Dr Jana, Keeper of the Singapore Herbarium, to find out what a herbarium is all about! #icymi We’re also digitalising our collections to build up the largest online database in SEA! 🧐 #SingaporeBotanicGardens #CelebratingSBG #PressedInPixels

📣📣📣 A public announcement! If you happened to be in #KualaLumpur, 🇲🇾 and interested in plants and botany! This is an event you shouldn't miss! #SBGScience #NHP_Borneo

Coming soon…! #SBGScience National Parks Board

The Singapore Herbarium digitalisation initiative has started today, which aims to digitalise about 800,000 specimens in its collection! Watch this process unfold in the new viewing gallery: go.gov.sg/pressed-in-pix…