Saturday, May 30, 2009

Catch Them Doing Right: The Real ‘300’

My schoolmate from junior college, Sivasothi demonstrated Spartan-like qualities when he, single-handledly, helped free 300 entangled horseshoe crabs. This rescue, on 27 May, at Mandai Besar mangrove took about five hours; needless to say, it must have been a back-breaking job to work through the 100-metre long abandoned net. Ghost nets are a major threat to these alien-like crabs (which I think were the initial inspiration for the Cylons's spacecraft on the hit television series, Battlestar Galactica). 

Kudos also goes to members of the Nature Society Singapore Horseshoe crab research and rescue team, who scour Kranji mangroves on a quarterly basis to release these trapped marine creatures as well.

Read more on HabitatNews about this amazing rescue.

Thank you, Siva for doing the right thing!

By the way, selfless naturalist, Siva is passionate about Macs, Web2.0, cats, cycling, teaching, natural history, and life in Singapore. This avid mountain-biker, recently participated in the Ride of Silence. I strongly recommend his educational and adventurous blog: http://otterman.wordpress.com/

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