Remember Chek Jawa is a 47-minute documentary

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 made on digital video

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 by freelance cinematographer

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 Eric Lin Youwei. It documents a biodiversity survey conducted in 2001, by a small group of volunteer conservationist

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s, headed by botanist Joseph Lai, months before the Singapore government's reclamation project at Chek Jawa

Chek Jawa

Tanjong Chek Jawa is a cape and the name of its 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...

, Pulai Ubin. Chek Jawa is an inter-tidal area of about 1 square kilometre which supports a vast amount of plant and animal lives encompassing six ecosystem

Ecosystem

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The volunteers' efforts were rewarded when the government agreed, in December 2001, to defer use of the Chek Jawa land for the next ten years.

The documentary is available as a DVD

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 under Objectifs Films, available in the libraries under the National Library Board

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, Singapore.