- Expiry DateFebruary 21, 2026
Submitted by: Singapore Youth Voices for Biod
Look in the headlines of recent news, and you’re bound to find some mention of biodiversity somewhere. Maybe it’s a forest being cleared, or some shore being reclaimed. Civets in our backyards, or otters in our ponds. Or maybe, it’s a bit subtler – a hydropower project announced in the region, some statistics on fish imports to Singapore, or new innovations allowing us to minimise land developed.
Often when we talk about biodiversity we focus on the issues – habitat loss, human-wildlife conflicts, species extinctions. Or, we focus on solutions – planting trees, education campaigns, citizen science. But we rarely (if at all) talk about the drivers of these problems, and the policies that are meant to address (or sometimes, perpetuate) them. That’s where biodiversity policy comes in.
This 2-day day-camp takes a hard look at how biodiversity issues are managed in Singapore: the trade-offs behind land-use decisions, the assumptions baked into policy tools, and the ways science, economics, and public sentiment intersect.
Whether you’re curious, frustrated, or keen to make change, this bootcamp is for anyone who wants to move beyond headlines and understand how biodiversity issues propagate and perpetuate, and what we could potentially be doing to address it.
