The first comprehensive guide to nature in Singapore – Singapore Biodiversity: An Encyclopedia of the Natural Environment and Sustainable Development – sums up almost 200 years of natural history study in Singapore, charts the rise of the nature movement in the nation and gives suggestions for sustaining the rich biodiversity into the future. The spectacular diversity of life found in Singapore is described in over 1,500 alphabetical entries for virtually every known group of the more than 40,000 species of flora and fauna found here, and is illustrated with more than 2,000 photographs, maps, tables and charts.