Food Web

- Decomposers contribute to the food web as it decompose and break down consumers' wastes or dead tissues. This process releases nutrients to support the producers as well as the consumers that feed through absorbing organic matters.

Reflection

- Removal of any species can negatively affect the entire food web. We must not destroy the natural habitat for wildlife.

- Try to provide more food soucres and encourage wildlife diversity so that we can attract more differnent species of animals to Chek Jawa.

-Educate ourselves about the plants and animeals in Chek Jawa so that we can better share our space with them.

- Live harmoniously with nature.

Current Conservation Methods

Major Reason for Conservation

Preserve on the basics of beauty, for the enjoyment of future generations.

Governmnets, organisations, buisness, communities and indiviuduals can work together to protect more and restore habitats.

Current Conservation methods

1) Singapore Government agreed to leave Chek Jawa untouched until 2012.The area has been fenced off till to increase of tourists damaging the ecosystem in the area.Conservation efforts were made by the Ministry Of National Developement to preserve that area.

2)Restoring coastal habitats.

In early 2007 Chek Jawa was closed to public after being damaged by heavy rains in December 2006. Freshwater rains upset the wetlands saltwater balance, resulting in widespread death of marine creatures. Tours were stopped to let the wetlands recover.

3)Improving protection management

NParks set up a system to manage large number of visitors and to facilitate guided tours so that the negative impact on the habitats and marine life could be minimised.

Producers, Consumers and Decomposers you can find in Chek Jawa

Producers - They support the rest of the food web.

Algae


Fan seaweed

Consumers- Primary(Herbivorous)

Snail

Sea slugs

limpets and periwinkles

Consumers- Secondary (carnivorous)

Butterfly Fish

Goby Fish

Decomposers- Break down dead organisms

Fungus, Bacteria

The Physical Environment Of Chek Jawa

Virtual habitat

Tanjong Chek Jawa is a 100 hectare wetlands located on the south eastern tip of Pulau Ubin, an island off the north-eastern coast of the main island of Singapore.

Chek Jawa is among the few places left with a natural rocky shore. The wetlands are unique as several ecosystems can be observed in one area - sandy beach, rocky bench, seagrass lagoon, coral rubble, mangroves and coastal forest.