a day soon passes as you wander about these gardens, it's hard to imagine that you are so close to Orchard Road when you are surrounded by such quiet and space.Whilst Orchard Road, Singapore's main shopping street where over 2000 brands compete with each other to take your money from your pockets the Botanical Gardens succeeds in filling your soul with sights,sounds and smells.Beautiful orchids,vibrant heliconias and verdant greenery all for free.Well not exactly you have to pay to go and see the orchids.
It was also a site for the congregation of decorated baby elephants statues that had been spread around the city in an attempt to bring attention to the plight of the Asian elephant .
www.elephantparade.com/elephants
Maureen quite liked the one sponsored by Ricky Gervais, I liked the Theatrical one and one called Seigfried by an artist called Andre Tempel.
One or two I found just to be a flight of personal fantasy or something that said more about the artist than the elephant in danger,the Unicephalant description tag was more about the artist Philip Treacy's own artistic development.
Elephants in Thailand are threatened by a growing interest in eating them !
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| who's a little devil |
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| the Dorian elephant |
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| Siegfreid |
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| Unicephalent by Philip Treacy |
Whilst the foundation is not a charity it does claim to have donated 4 million euros to the welfare of the Asian elephant which has seen its population decline by 90% as the conflict between man and elephant has grown.I am sometimes worried about whether this type activity is more for the benefit of the organisation etc than the animal concerned.I was amazed by the relative frenzy of buying opportunities to get copies of small statues of the exhibits and the assorted paraphenalia.A well marketed event. Just hope people take notice of the effects our craving for growth etc is having on the natural world.
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