Early publications from Singapore Zoological Gardens

 

The Singapore Zoo (originally called the Singapore Zoological Gardens) officially opened on 27 June 1973. Instead of going on the school excursion, which I remember my parents objected and brought me there on their own with my second auntie. I was a very protected child then ( it was many years later then I realised why this is so ).While at the zoo, I always remember them calling the Orang Utan , mountain man in Hokkien.

Below is a copy of Zoo Ed dated 1983 which I believed was selling in my secondary school. The publication was an educational children’s magazine aimed at engaging young readers with wildlife topics

Around 2004, this magazine was relaunched as “Wildlife Wonders”, continuing the same focus on wildlife education for kids, and it ran for many year. Below is the first edition of the Wildlife wonders

Singapore Zoo also offered the Wildlife Wonders magazine as a free quarterly publication to visitors and members of its Friends of the Zoo / Friends of Wildlife programme. 

However at this day and age, the printed pages have given way to screens. Updates now come from the Mandai Wildlife Reserve through Facebook posts and Instagram videos, where keepers share stories straight from the enclosures. The medium has changed, but the spirit remains the same — connecting people to wildlife, just in a different form.