The Casuarina Trees That Conquered Singapore's Coney Island | Secret Lives Of Trees (Part 2/2)

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The forests of Singapore are among the oldest in the world, sharing ancestry with those in Southeast Asia. Our tropical rainforest is a complex ecosystem known for its rich plant diversity. Yet, on Coney Island, the marshy uninhabitable area has been dominated by just one tree species -- the tall and wispy Casuarina trees. 2,000 out of 3,000 of them in Singapore can be found on Coney Island. How did the Casuarina trees take over Coney Island? Do they really have superpowers?
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ABOUT THE SHOW:
There are some seven million trees in Singapore and amongst them are a very special few that hold the answers to mysteries unlike any other. With a unique and unprecedented approach into our history, Secret Lives of Trees uncovers these secrets for the very first time.
Why did hundreds of thousands of Angsana trees across the island mysteriously disappear in the 1980s? And how did an uninhabited mangrove island transform into a lush Casuarina forest on Coney Island?
Told from the ground up through a cast of compelling characters, we’ll dive into the backstories of these trees, uncovering clues from our history, cultures, communities and wildlife.
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28 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 20

@jessiewyg Год назад

Another top quality story telling documentary from CNA, thanks for assembling so many experts who all provided interesting snippets and take on the one big puzzle that is pulau serangoon/Coney Island

@gryff8400 Год назад

Good documentary. 👍🙂 TL;DR -> land reclamation and beneficial bacteria. 🥳 surprise 🥳 who would have thought it, in Singapore of all the places 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

@orcaoup2423 Год назад

25:20 for why casurina dominates

@helenpang2970 Год назад

Enjoyed this episode. We have much to learn from nature. Big thank you to the people who raised objection to the authorities for Coney Island to be absorbed into a HDB development. We would have lost much of the history and idiosyncrasies of Coney Island.

@NazriB Год назад

Lies again? Tree House

@lourdesmurilloquintana5123 Год назад

There are places that must be left to nature just to be nature. Enjoyed the film, greetings from Bolivia, La Paz.

@theonghantan862 Год назад

Thanks for sharing 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤ it’s so educational and knowledgeable 🤗👍❤️🥰🥰🙏🙏🙏🙏

@MsCorydorus Год назад

Really Nice Work on the Video

@watjejanssen7535 Год назад

great story,enjoyed watching

@lenett9541 Год назад

Where I used to live in the 70s around Joo Seng Road, from my kitchen window, I can see a small patch of ground with many Casurina trees. I used to pick the fruits and played with them. Boys from the few blocks of HDB flat around would make toy guns using small waste wood pieces picked from a nearby furniture-making shop. They had lots of fun using the casurina seeds as bullets to shoot each other.

@johnchua9387 Год назад

Singapore used to have lots of casuarina trees not just in coney island (then Pulau Serangoon never known to have casuarina trees as described). During the late 1960s, As a young kid, I used to walk past rolls and rows of casuarina trees enroute to the primary school (May South Primary with May North Primary next to each ~ both no longer exist) I attended. In fact rubber trees and nutmeg trees once thrived in Singapore. In the name of progress, these has all but disappeared. The night sky in those days were filled with twinkling stars and after a down pour, you can even see fireflies dancing in patches of green that the lalang grass thrived. By the 1980s all the above scenery was long gone.