• Resorts World on the Sentosa website
  
  

Sentosa has living wild reefs!

• Sentosa Seagrass Transect wild volunteers find out more about this wild shore.
  More photos of Sentosa's wild shores.
  

Photos of Sentosa's shores on wildsingapore's flickr

• Tanjung Rimau
  
• Doomed shores next to cable car tower
  

Our Southern Islands in general

• fact sheets on our major shores what to see and do? how to get there? contacts and more links.
• Discussed on the fins forum
• Singaporean feedback to environmental impact of developments at Sentosa
  

more background on plans for the Southern Islands

Singapore's Capri
St John's, Lazarus and Renget islands to be reclaimed and developed after Italy's Capri. It was assured that 80% of the southern islands "will remain in its natural state". An S$280 million project targetted for completion in 2007.
An article with more details
Maris Stella School webpage on the project

URA's plans for the Southern Islands
Southern Islands Planning Report 1996 with a summary of the plans for the statutory exhibition: "More than 70 per cent of Sentosa's greenery will be kept. Most of the natural environment in St John's Island, Kusu Island and the Sister's Island will also remain unspoilt."

Palm Island, Dubai
Touted as the 8th wonder in the world, this entirely man-made resort is being built through massive reclamation and construction: "Rocks weighing 7 million metric tons are being brought in from 16 different quarries throughout the UAE. If all the materials used to build it were placed end to end, a wall 2m high and half a metre thick could circle the world three times."

Atlantis, Paradise Island Bahamas
Atlantis has been described as "the largest man-made marine habitat in the world" featuring "a living, million-gallon saltwater habitat (the world's largest outdoor, open water aquarium, complete with an underwater walk through a shark lagoon, giant sea turtles and thousands of tropical fish)"

Captive whale sharks

Whale Sharks in Captivity on the Marine Conservation News website "It has been argued that such aquarium exhibits provide valuable publicity and raise public awareness to the plight of whale sharks in the wild. However the lifespan of the sharks in captivity has often been very short and tends to negate such positive aspects. Survival times ranged from as little as 3 days to the current record of nearly 10 years, dependant on their initial condition on arrival, as some animals had been injured during capture."

Captive dolphins

About Dolphin Quest and dolphins in captivity

• Dolphin Quest website
• Acres: Suffering, not Smiling campaign for release of captive dolphins in Singapore
• Dolphins with Jobs (and what you can do about it) on the One Voice website
• Arguments against dolphin captivity on the Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society
• The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity: The Third Revised Edition on the Humane Society of the U.S.A website
• Arguments against captivity Why keeping whales and dolphins is cruel... on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
• The Plight of Marine Mammals on the In Defence of Animals website
• 'Flipper' trainer blasts Marineland dolphin park promoters on the CDNN website "I have personally worked on both sides of the dolphin street: the first 10 years with the dolphin captivity industry, the past 30 against them."
• The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity on the World Society for the Protection of Animals website
• Dolphins in captivity on the Dolphin Care UK website: lists the different lifestyles of dolphins in the wild versus in captivity.
  

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