Hi everyone,

We’ve been quiet for a while now – many of us a struggling to juggle work with studies and volunteering, so we’ll have to let things develop at their own pace, for now.

That being said, some BWV members managed to get a paper published in Nature in Singapore on some new fish records, observed while doing coral reef surveys. The article can be found here (it’s number 12 on the list).

Ever efficient Ria has already reported its publication

Cheers, Jeff

HI everyone,

We’ve been having some trouble with our website and emails lately. The website issues have mostly been resolved, thanks to our web magician Jacki, but email is still a bit cranky. Some of your emails to the “.bluewatervolunteers.org” email accounts might not get through, so, alternative email accounts to write to are:

Reef Walk: reefwalk@gmail.com
Reef Friends: reeffriends@gmail.com

I’ll post again when our problems are all sorted out.

Cheers, Jeff

Received this email a couple of days ago from Eric:
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Dear Friends,

The documentary that I made last year- “Remember Chek Jawa”, as many of you may have watched, will be officially releasing a DVD (yes…finally ) on 16 Aug 2008, 2pm at Kinokuniya Takashimaya and 22 Aug at Books Actually Bookstore, 730-8pm. The distributor is Objectifs Films. The films first 300 copies will be on sale at Kinokuniya, Books Actually Bookstore and Objectifsfilms. I intend to place it at some diveshops for sale soon. More on that later I have also included some special features of extra unreleased interviews and photos (mostly from Ria Tan).

Part of sales proceeds will go to local marine conservation work by “Blue Water Volunteers”.

Cheers
Eric Y W Lim
http://chekjawa.net
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Congratulations, Eric! Will be there at the Launch tomorrow in support of this event. Hope to see you all there too!

Cheers, Jeff

The International Year of the Reef 2008 Singapore (IYOR 08 Singapore) celebrates the reef!!

Date : 9 Aug (Sat)
Time : 10 am onwards
Location : Function Hall, Botany Centre, Singapore Botanic Gardens (Tanglin Core)
Activities : Adopt a star, special talks, kid’s activities, exhibits …. and more!

Check out the details on the Singapore celebrates our reefs! blog

Or fungus, protist or bacteria…who are we to discriminate eh? Plus get to meet Jane Goodall in person!

Here’s the blurb from the organisers:

Greetings from the Jane Goodall Institute, Singapore!

You are invited to join Dr Jane Goodall and friends at an event to advocate for our wild plant and animal species at The Singapore Wildlife Stampede on November 2^nd at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Join in the parade dressed as a plant or animal, or just come picnic at the Palm Valley and see Dr Goodall in person.

Let us know you are interested by emailing: Elizabeth eberdz@gmail.com or Lynette lynette_cdz@hotmail.com

Or register on-line at our website http://wildlifeparade.wordpress.com/

Act for Earth!

Join the Singapore Wildlife Stampede on November 2 led by Dr. Jane Goodall (primatologist and conservationist) and her friends. Suitable for kids 5 to 95!

Parade: 4pm Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden en route to Palm Valley, Singapore Botanic Gardens

Picnic: 5pm Palm Valley, Singapore Botanic Gardens

For more information and to register, http://wildlifeparade.wordpress.com/

To find out more about Dr. Jane Goodall and her work, check out http://www.janegoodall.org/

Help us make this an eco-friendly event:

BRING re-useable drinking bottles, natural mats not plastic, & homemade picnic food

- reduce picnic disposables & litter

- reuse old materials for costumes

- recycle after parade

Help us create a better awareness about our fragile Earth and her endangered wildlife.