City in Nature: key strategies

Singapore is one of the greenest cities in the world. After 6 decades of greening efforts, we now have a thriving network of green spaces where nature is restored into our urban environment and brought closer to our everyday lives.

5 key strategies for a City in Nature by 2030

As part of the Singapore Green Plan 2030, we will continue to build upon our greening efforts and transform Singapore into a City in Nature:

Grow nature park natworks

Naturalise gardens and parks

Restore nature in urban areas

Connect green spaces

Enhance vet care and animal management

Explore what it means for Singapore to be a City in Nature in the video below:

1. Grow nature park networks

Our 4 nature reserves safeguard Singapore's ecosystems. They are primary providers of ecosystem services, helping to clean the air and water, and are home to native flora and fauna.

To buffer these nature reserves from the impact of urbanisation and create complementary habitats, nature parks were formed around them. Nature park networks connect these nature parks together to protect the nature reserves against future developments.

Learn more about our nature reserves and nature park network

To ensure that nature continues to thrive alongside us, we aim to grow our nature park networks with 200 more hectares of new nature parks by 2030.

2. Naturalise gardens and parks

To bring nature closer to everyone, we are intensifying nature in our new and existing gardens and parks. Without venturing too far from home, we can partake in immersive nature experiences and enjoy its associated benefits on health and well-being.

By 2026, we will enjoy more than 300 hectares of such gardens and parks, which will be naturalised in various ways:

3. Restore nature in urban areas

Bringing nature closer to us helps cool our surroundings, improve air quality, and provide the therapeutic effects of a greener living environment. Our industrial estates have also been enhanced with trees over the years and will continue to see more intensified greenery taking root.

We aim to have 200 hectares of skyrise greenery island-wide, and plant at least 170,000 more trees in industrial areas by 2030.

Learn about the benefits trees bring to our City in Nature.

4. Connect green spaces

We will continue to build a network of ecological corridors that links nature reserves and parks to heartland gardens and parks. This helps create an inter-connected eco hub bringing plants, wildlife, and people together.

We also aim to make every road in Singapore a nature way.

Learn more about nature corridors and nature ways, and our Park Connector Network.

By 2030, we will have 300km of nature ways and 500km of park connectors so that every household in Singapore will be within a 10-minute walk from a park.

5. Enhance vet care and animal management

Community animals play a vital role as our companions, and wildlife enriches the biodiversity of our urban ecosystem. The Animal & Veterinary Service (AVS) works closely with partners to strengthen capacities and elevate animal health, management and welfare practices and knowledge.

As our well-being and health are interconnected with that of animals in our community, protecting them safeguards public health.

Grow our City in Nature together

Join our community programmes and become a steward of nature today. Find out how you can contribute to Singapore's greening efforts and transform our island into a City in Nature.