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“Coney Island is the playground of the world.”
“Coney Island is the playground of the world.”
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Background: Coney Island used to be called Serangoon Island (due to its proximity to Sungei Serangoon) and Haw Par Island (owned by the Haw Par brothers who built a mansion there). Its current name was given by an Indian businessman in 1950 who intended to turn it into a resort modelled after New York's Coney Island amusement park. This did not happen and the land was sold back to the state.
Coney Island was also smaller in the past (at 13 hectares) before reclamation works in the 1975 and 1990s expanded the area to 62 hectares. Today, part of the island is designated as land for future residential and recreational use but remained as a park as the land is not currently required. About 10% of the land (in the eastern part of the island) is earmarked for OBS' new campus.
Fun fact: There used to be a single cow residing on the island but it died in 2015.
Food for Thought: Balancing development and nature.
Links: Learn more here.
Toilet: ✔
Shelter: ✔
Water point: ❌
Map of habitats on Coney Island
Map of habitats on Coney Island
NOTE
The resource below (Coney Island Park - Ecolife Trail) is shared information courtesy of Nparks.
Ensure that the usage of the resource is intended solely for OBS training purposes and not to be circulated beyond OBS.
Coney Island Park Booklet Updated 2019 FINAL.pdfEXTRA INFORMATION
EXTRA INFORMATION
A comparison of Coney Island before and after land reclamation from the 1970s onwards:
Coney Island before reclamation in 1969
Coney Island Present Day (Google Maps)
You are walking through the trails of Coney with your pax, admiring the flora that surrounds you. Suddenly a pax asks, “Instructor, what bird is that?” Panic fills you as you scramble to come up with an answer. Do you admit you have no clue or do you create a name, “it’s a yellow-headed, black crested, blue-tailed…bird”.
Have no fear and read on to learn about the birds found on Coney, how to identify them and how you can apply this to your course.
Flora & Fauna around Coney
Flora & Fauna around Coney
Learn about the brief history of coney island and different instructional strategies to engage the participants in identifying flora and faunas.
Add a little bit of body text.pdfPunggol Waterway Fauna.pdfGuess the Bird!.jpgPunggol Road.pdfConey BINGO
Coney BINGO
Engage your participants on their trek through Coney Island with the Coney Bingo game!
Coney Bingo.pdfInteresting Links for Coney Island
Animal Advisory on Macaques: https://www.nparks.gov.sg/gardens-parks-and-nature/dos-and-donts/animal-advisories/macaquesAbandoned Villa on Coney Island: https://mothership.sg/2020/10/haw-par-beach-villa-coney/The legendary cow that has since died: https://mothership.sg/2015/10/theres-a-lonely-cow-on-coney-island-do-not-attempt-to-feed-milk-or-eat-it-thank-you/Interesting Links for Coney Island
"The goal is to discover your nature, and nature helps you do it"
"The goal is to discover your nature, and nature helps you do it"
Maxime Legacé
Maxime Legacé
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