Ananthanarayanan Sankar (FoS/SCI1), Chio Qi Jun (FoS/SCI1), Chua Soon Kiat Jonathan (FASS/ARS1), Chua Teck Lim (FoE/CHE1), Tan Shao Yun (MDP/CEG1)
Academic Advisor: Adekunle Adeyeye | Student Fellow: Kerk Jun Gang
Proper management of human-wildlife interactions is vital for sustainable development. This is especially true in Singapore, a small country with limited land space. The most well-known cases of negative human-wildlife interaction in Singapore are human-macaque altercations. Residents around nature reserves experience occasional home invasions by Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) seeking food. Agencies such as ACRES and NParks responded with various outreach efforts, while AVA engages in culling. Culling in particular is an unfeasible and unsustainable long-term solution as macaques are important seed dispersers. The other measures, such as public awareness campaigns and monkey-proof bin installations are a much more sustainable means of addressing this issue. However, the effectiveness of these efforts has not been fully evaluated. In this project, we studied three of these measures and reviewed each of them. From our findings, we identified several issues present in these current implementations and proposed various methods to improve these efforts.
Keywords: Natural Environment and Ecosystem, Wildlife management, Human-wildlife conflict, Outreach, Urban Ecology