Conservation Efforts at Jurong Lake Park

Jurong Lake Park is one of the most peaceful places in Singapore so all of us must conserve it. What is conserve? To conserve means to save. Like how we save water at home, for example, turn of the tap at all times when not using. We have to conserve Jurong Lake Park too. One question you would most likely ask now is "How do we conserve?”. Basically, there are many ways to conserve Jurong Lake Park. Two examples I can think of are:

1) Do not disturb the living things and their habitats

2) You can donate! There was event that is called Jurong Lake Run that is a donate event. People can simply wait for upcoming events too!

The park management officials put up signs to tell people not to swim, litter and fishing. They also hired workers to clean the park. But I think that they should put more rubbish bins around as I don't see many rubbish bins around. I think that it is because park users are lazy to look for rubbish bins to throw their rubbish so they just littered it into the pond. Park users are breaking the rules, they littered into the pond. I think that the park management officials should do something about it. Some rubbish may be poisonous, and will harm the animals in the pond. Although they did not does a perfect job, but I think that they have at least done something about it. And if the actions that I mentioned can be carried out, it would be less people littering. It is very good that conservation is taken place, there are recycle bins in the park. I think that park users should also take responsibility, they should not litter in the park. They should conserve the park as they use the park for jogging or any other activities

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Our school also uses the park to have 2.4km run. Jurong Lake Park brings us many benefits, so we should not destroy it. In my opinions, park users should follow the rules and not break it so that we will have a clean park for us. I believe that if we appreciate and protect the natural environment in Jurong Lake Park, it will be much more beautiful than now. The easiest way we can protect the natural environment is by not harming the animals. I think that the park management should also organise activities such as cleaning the park.

These are the efforts the authorities made to protect and conserve the park. However, most of their efforts have gone to waste as we are not abiding the rules. We should not be so inconsiderate to those people who love to relax and enjoy the greenery, the scenery and the flora at Jurong Lake Park. If we really just sit down and relax, we would realize the damage that is already being done to the park, but still at the same time we would enjoy the fresh air at the park.

As long as there are still people going against the rules, I believe that there are still many more things that the authorities can do. What I can suggest the authorities to do is that;

• They can patronize the park more often to see if anybody breaks the law.
• Have talks in schools to educate children about the importance of keeping the parks clean.
• Have more strict rules and impose a bigger fine to offenders.
• They can set up rubbish bin for the people to throw their rubbish inside, and also set up interesting notice for the people to encourage them not to litter on the ground,
• They can also introduce more interesting ways of throwing rubbish away

Foreigners know Singapore as the 'garden city' because of our greenery and natural flora. What if they were to see the conditions of our parks and gardens? What would they think of Singapore? What would they think about us, Singaporeans?

In addition, we should conserve the park as it is important to the residents and our school. The residents and our school use the park for jogging and running. Some of the residents usually went there for a morning walk. As for the lake, our school's dragon boat training is in the lake, so it is convenience to them as they does not need to waste time travelling to faraway places. So, Jurong Lake Park brings us many benefits such as jogging, running, morning walk and CCA trainings.

In conclusion, we can observe all these beautiful and magnificent things of the park, of the amazing nature. If we the citizens of Singapore do not help in protecting the park, who will? We should be caring for it, instead of worsening the condition of the park. If we continue our bad habits and inconsiderate behaviour, some living things there might end up facing extinction. In order to protect the environment in the park, everyone must do their part!!!