By Grace Chua
VISITORS to the Southern Ridges will soon be serenaded by a wider variety of birds, attracted by trees from a new National Parks Board project.
NParks has planted a variety of native trees along the sides of a forest trail in a 20-hectare swathe of land near Gillman Village, to attract more and different types of avian life to feed on the fruit and insects there.
In a few months, the parks authority will start guided walks and bird-watching trips as well.
This 'Singing Forest' project, launched yesterday, was sponsored by semiconductor firm ST Microelectronics under the Garden City Fund, an NParks charity. ST Microelectronics declined to disclose how much it gave.
It is the newest of the parks authority's projects at the Southern Ridges, the hilly green area stretching from West Coast Park to Harbourfront.
Last month, it launched the Sembcorp Forest of Giants, a stretch of trees which will grow to the height of 30-storey HDB blocks.