Cheryl Leow Hwei Hwei, Jiang Yixing, Kevin Sun, Toh Jia Yue, Toh Xin Le
Academic Advisor: Mr. Lim Cheng Puay
Industry Advisor: Sodexo
Urban spaces play a significant role in causing injuries and death to wild birds. The proliferation of highly reflective glass facades and extensive light pollution all contribute towards resident and migratory bird casualties worldwide. Singapore, a highly urbanised metropolis, is located beneath the East Asia-Australasia Flyway, a major migratory route for over 3 billion birds. The impact of the city on the survivability of wild birds poses a significant threat to its populations. Understanding and mitigating the sources of urban bird mortalities is thus a critical component of maintaining urban sustainability. Save Our Skies is a citizen science programme designed to help with data collection on the issue of bird and building collision. The programme hopes to ultimately produce a robust set of data on the state of bird/building collision in Singapore, thus providing convincing arguments and useful observations in the push for bird-safe building design regulations.
Keywords: Natural Environment & Ecosystems, Bird collision, Sustainable urban building, Education