Promoting Animal Welfare (PAW) is a Middle School and High School Global Concern that is determined to raise awareness and change the world's perspective about animal protection.

In the past, we have conducted various campaigns in school in order to bring attention to issues both locally and globally. One such campaign was the annual 'Shark Week'. This was done to raise a voice against shark fin soup and shark finning. We were successfully able to make an impact through this by not only spreading awareness of shark finning in school but also persuading several supermarket branches to stop selling shark fins. Since then, there has been a significant decrease in shark fin consumption in Singapore. We have also conducted campaigns for awareness about the palm oil issue and raised awareness for the use of sustainable palm oil and the animals affected by palm oil plantations.

Looking ahead, we plan on continuing to raise awareness of pressing issues and do more collaborative efforts in order to promote animal welfare.

Tioman Turtles Global Concern supports the Juara Turtle Project on Tioman Island, Malaysia. The aim of the Juara Turtle Project is to help rejuvenate the habitat and protect the two remaining species of sea turtles that nest on Tioman Island.

Eggs are collected from the coast of Tioman Island and brought to a hatchery compound for protection from poaching and natural predators. Hatchlings have minimal interference and are released from their natural nesting beach almost immediately after birth. The project is a self-sustainable, low impact establishment, which helps the turtles increase their natural population.

Since 2017, the Juara Turtle Project has diversified its projects and initiatives, adding the Coral Reef Rehabilitation program in an attempt to reverse damage to the reefs and to encourage protection of the reef from weather, traffic and development. The Juara Turtle Project also works with Juara Primary School to foster awareness among the students and community in the importance of conservation and pollution management. The Waste Management & Recycling Program work with the a number of resorts in Juara to collect their plastic and recyclable waste to be sent to a recycling plant on the mainland fortnightly.

UWCSEA began their partnership with the Juara Turtle Project in 2006. The school sponsors the project in the form of annual financial donations raised by the Tioman Turtles Global Concern group and from the school’s Environment budget.

The aim of the UWCSEA Rainforest Restoration Project is to increase the biodiversity of trees on the UWCSEA campuses as well as in the Singapore community. 

The trees are all indigenous to Southeast Asia or are naturalised here in Singapore. While planting these trees, a secondary aim is to also increase the awareness of the cultural/historical significance of the trees with the local and college community.

The GC started at UWCSEA Dover in 2005 with funds for the nursery, tools and horticultural supplies donated by members of the UWCSEA community in return for trees planted in their name. Since then, we have now expanded significantly— attending events such as Earthfest and other non-campus based gatherings within the wider Singapore community. One of our largest projects to date was completed recently, a seedling project with Yale-NUS that spanned multiple years and yielded interesting results. A current project of ours is the ongoing progress to upgrade the GC working space, which will allow us to operate with increased efficiency. We have also recently joined Nparks in their One Million Trees initiative and have been allotted space in the green corridor.