ST Forum letter: Benefits of having wildlife in our midst
Read the local Sunday paper’s (Sunday Times) commentary on 13 Apr 2014 about the coexistence of wildlife with humans in urban areas in India and North America, and was inspired to reply with a local perspective. The paper has a listed average circulation of 449,200 and a readership of 1.43 million, so I figured it could be a nice way to reach some of the english paper-reading populace.
So armed with an opinion, I got active with a word processor. Had to slip in a reference to the leopard cat of course. After some professional editing, this ensued and was published on the Sunday Times 20 Apr 2014:
The published letter. Source: The Straits Times © Singapore Press Holdings Limited.
Hopefully the letter would lend a little voice to carnivorans and other wildlife in Singapore.