FACTS &
FIGURES

National Day Awards

Public Administration Medal (Silver)

Mr Wong Tuan Wah
Group Director/Fort Canning Park & Istana
and Senior Curator, Istana

Public Administration Medal (Silver)

Mr Abdul Hamid bin Mohd
Director/Arboriculture
Streetscape

Mr Ryan Lee Yann Shian
Director/Smart District Division
Smart District Division

Dr Varughese Philip
Deputy Director/Plant Science & Health
(Soil Management Lab)
Horticulture and Community Gardening

Commendation Medal

Ms Chan Suet Heong Jolene
Senior Manager/Licensing & Compliance
Industry & Biosecurity Management

Ms Chin How Kien
Senior Manager/Development Management
Parks Development

Mr Goh Meng Yong Ron
Senior Manager/Prosecution (Prosecutor)
Corporate Services

Mr Hassan bin Ibrahim
Deputy Director/International Biodiversity Conservation
International Biodiversity Conservation

Commendation Medal (continued)

Mr Lua Hock Keong
Deputy Director/Biodiversity (Terrestrial)
National Biodiversity Centre

Mr Ng Kian Wee Maxel
Deputy Director/Community Horticulture
Horticulture and Community Gardening

Mr Tan Yong Jun Mervyn
Deputy Director/Parks
Parks East

Mr Joshua Teoh
Director/Animal Welfare
Community Animal Management

Efficiency Medal

Ms Chee Yee Ping
Manager/Parks
Parks Central

Ms Koh Shu Yuen Jasmine
Senior Manager/Streetscape
Streetscape

Ms Too Sok Geok Carrie
Senior Executive/Corporate Strategy & Planning
Corporate Strategy and Planning

Long Service Medal

Ms G Shila Kumari
Officer/Conservation (Outreach)
Conservation

Dr Yap Him Hoo
Director-General/
Animal & Veterinary Service Cluster

Awards and Accolades

Excellent Service Award 2019l

Attractions
4 STAR, 1 GOLD

Public Sector Transformation Awards 2020

Exemplary Innovator Award
Jurong Lake Gardens

Exemplary Innovator Award
Dr Leong Chee Chiew
Deputy Chief Executive Officer,
Professional Development & Services Cluster;
Executive Director, National Parks,
Gardens & Nature Reserves Cluster
and Commissioner of Parks & Recreation

Exemplary Service Excellence Award
Mr Sebastian Tan
Acting Director/Pet & Street Animal Management
Community Animal Management

MND Minister's Award (Team) 2019

Trees.sg

Conservation of Mandai Mangrove and Mudflat – Smarter and Better Tools

Formation of the New Singapore Food Agency and Transfer of AVA's Non-food Functions to NParks

Share Bronze Award 2019

Singapore H.E.A.L.T.H Award 2019

Certificate of Recognition

IT Awards

SG:D Techblazer Awards 2019
Best Adoption (Public Sector)

United Nations Asia Environmental
Enforcement Awards 2019
(Category: Collaboration)

Note: Staff appointments indicated on this page are accurate as of when the Awards were announced.

CUGE Training Programmes

The Centre for Urban Greenery and Ecology (CUGE) was established by NParks as a regional centre of excellence to advance an urban and green living environment, and a one-stop training and knowledge hub in urban greenery and ecology.

Workforce Skills Qualification (WSQ) Courses

  • WSQ Certificate in Landscape Operations
  • WSQ Higher Certificate in Landscape Operations (Arboriculture)
  • WSQ Advanced Certificate in Landscape Supervision (Arboriculture)
  • WSQ Advanced Certificate in Landscape Supervision (Landscape Design and Construction)
  • WSQ Advanced Certificate in Landscape Supervision (Nursery)
  • WSQ Advanced Certificate in Landscape Supervision (Parks, Reserves and Gardens)
  • WSQ Advanced Certificate in Landscape Supervision (Turf, Sports Grounds and Greens)
  • WSQ Diploma in Landscape Management (Arboriculture)
  • WSQ Diploma in Landscape Management (Landscape Design and Construction)
  • WSQ Diploma in Landscape Management (Nursery)
  • WSQ Diploma in Landscape Management (Parks, Reserves and Gardens)
  • WSQ Diploma in Landscape Management (Turf, Sports Grounds and Greens)
  • WSQ in Nature Interpretation

Professional Certification Programmes

  • Certificate in Therapeutic Horticulture
  • Certified Playground Safety Inspector Programme
  • Certified Practising Horticulturist Programme
  • ISA Certified Arborist Preparatory Programme
  • ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification

International Briefings and Overseas International Programmes

  • CUGE Overseas International Programme on Greenery Planning & Management
  • Briefings for Overseas Delegates

Seminars / Professional Speaker Series / Workshops

  • 9th Regional Arboriculture Seminar – The Digital Journey in Urban Tree Management
  • Basic Drone Operation
  • Biodiversity, Conservation, Harmonising People and Nature
  • Biophilic and Ecological Design
  • Butterfly Gardens – Ecology to Practical Design
  • Canine and Feline Seminar
  • Canine and Feline Workshop
  • Composing Tree Pruning Specifications
  • CUGE Professional Speaker Series – Introduced Cavities as Nest Boxes
  • CUGE Professional Speaker Series – New Ways of Seeing: New Ways of Knowing
  • Client Management for Therapeutic Horticulture (Children & Teenagers with Development Disabilities)
  • Edible Landscaping Using Permaculture Techniques
  • Forensics for Urban Trees
  • Formative Pruning for Young Trees
  • Identifying System-Level Risk Exposure
  • Introduction to Therapeutic Horticulture and Therapeutic Garden
  • Landscape Safety Orientation Course
  • Nature Play Programming
  • Playground Maintenance Technician Course
  • Resistance Drilling Equipment
  • Ride-On Mower Operator Assessment
  • Snake Handling Workshop
  • Soils for Healthy Urban Trees
  • Soils & Substrates for Green Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Landscaping Design Principles & Evaluation
  • Therapeutic Horticulture Programming (People with Disability)
  • Traditional and Novel Ways of Estimating Tree Growth
  • Tree Decay – The Fundamentals
  • Tree Inspection – The Basics
  • Tree Inspection – Advanced
  • Tree Inspection – Failure Documentation and Analysis
  • Tropical Tree Identification

Regional Parks Maintained by NParks

 
Area (ha)
Admiralty Park
25.67
Armenian Street
0.35
Ang Mo Kio Linear Park
6.24
Ang Mo Kio Town Garden East
4.88
Ang Mo Kio Town Garden West
20.63
Bedok Reservoir Park
40.39
Bedok Town Park
13.66
Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Parkk
60.58
Bukit Batok Nature Park
35.74
Bukit Batok Town Park (Little Guilin)
41.60
Bukit Timah Nature Reserve
162.64
Central Catchment Nature Reserve
455.00
Changi Beach Park (including Changi Point Promenade)
29.15
Chestnut Nature Park
81.00
Choa Chu Kang Park
10.41
Clementi Woods Park
11.48
Coney Island Park
76.80
Dairy Farm Nature Parkk
63.00
Dhoby Ghuat Green
1.00
East Coast Park
243.28
Empress Place
1.52
Esplanade Park
2.40
Fort Canning Park
19.14
Hampstead Wetlands Park
3.32
Handy Road
0.27
Hindhede Nature Park
9.00
Hong Lim Park
1.28
HortPark
24.04
Istana Park
1.29
Jurong Central Park
7.98
Jurong Lake Gardens (Lakeside Garden)
53.00
Kallang Riverside Park
5.16
Kent Ridge Park
48.40
Kranji Marshes Park
56.29
Kranji Reservoir Park
3.78
Labrador Nature Reserve and Park
22.78
Lower Peirce Reservoir Park
10.00
Total Number of Parks
Area (ha)
Regional parks
74
Neighbourhood parks
315
Total
389
 
Area (ha)
Lower Seletar Reservoir Park
8.49
MacRitchie Reservoir Park
12.00
Marsiling Park
11.35
Mount Faber Park
58.80
My Waterway @ Punggol
12.30
one-north Park
3.39
Orchard Fountain Corner
0.06
Pasir Ris Park
73.39
Pasir Ris Town Park
12.36
Pearl's Hill City Park
8.50
Penang Rd Open Space
0.24
Pulau Ubin Recreation Area
692.18
Punggol Park
16.66
Sembawang Hot Spring Park
1.12
Sembawang Park
15.58
Sengkang Riverside Park
21.08
Singapore Botanic Gardens
82.00
Sisters' Islands Marine Park
47.68
Springleaf Nature Park
18.28
Stamford Green
0.56
Sun Plaza Park
9.60
Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
193.31
Tampines Eco-Green
36.61
Telok Blangah Hill Park
36.88
Thomson Nature Park
52.00
Tiong Bahru Park
3.33
Toa Payoh Town Park
4.91
Upper Peirce Reservoir Park
4.00
Upper Seletar Reservoir Park
15.00
Waterboat House Garden
0.07
War Memorial Park
1.74
West Coast Park
50.13
Windsor Nature Park
75.00
Woodlands Waterfront Park
11.22
Yishun Park
13.22
Youth Olympic Park
0.66
Zhenghua Nature Park
17.30
Total
3,274.15
Total Area Maintained
Area (ha)
Parks, playgrounds, open spaces, fitness corners and park connectors*
2,774.35
Nature reserves
3,347
Istana and Parliament House grounds
42
Roadside greenery
2,108.71
Vacant state land
65.93
State land taken over as at Mar 2020**
4,228
Total
12,565.99

Plant Health

Import, Permits and Inspections
Import permits issued
44,530
Post-entry inspections conducted
2,051

Animal Health and Welfare

Licences, Permits, and Health Certificates Issued for Animal Imports
Animals (excluding livestock)
3,555
Biologics
265
Birds
166
Eggs for research
7
Products (blood, sera, urine, clinical specimens)
856
Ornamental fish (export health certificates)
4,931
Ornamental fish (import permits)
6,136
Total
15,916
Types of Animal Disease Surveyed in Local Farms
Captive bird farms
  • Bird flu
  • Newcastle Disease
3
Ornamental fish farms
  • Aeromonas Salmonicida
  • Chytrid Fungus
  • Epizootic Haematopoietic Necrosis Virus
  • Infectious Haematopoietic Necrosis Virus
  • Infectious Spleen and Kidney Necrosis Virus
  • Koi Herpes Virus
  • Megalocytivirus
  • Spring Viraemia Carp Virus
  • Viral Haemorrhagic Septicaemia
  • White Spot Syndrome Virus
55
Licensing Veterinarians and Veterinary Centres
Number of veterinarians
457
Number of veterinary centres
97
Grading of Pet Shops
Grade A
200
Grade B
18
Grade C
1
Grade D
1
Not graded***
52
Dog Licensing and Enforcement
Dog licences issued
~ 70,000
New licences
~ 12,000
Renewed licences (includes multi-year licences)
~ 58,000
*
Excludes Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Central Catchment Nature Reserve, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve and Labrador Nature Reserve which have been computed under "Nature reserves"
**
Greenery on vacant land taken over from agencies
***
Newly licensed pet shops that have not been graded yet
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