Rather than staging protests, Nellie Tan Li Koon and her colleagues presented their findings to the and the Ministry of National Development . They argued that preserving the wetlands could offer ecotourism value. The strategy worked. In 1993, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong officially opened the Sungei Buloh Nature Park. Today, it remains a testament to what quiet, persistent advocacy can achieve.
, but every time a family walks the boardwalks of Sungei Buloh, or a photographer catches a kingfisher along the Kranji Marshes, her spirit endures. nellie tan li koon