Wildlife Management

Managing wildlife populations in a highly urbanised country such as Singapore presents a challenge due to the overlap in high human population centres and wildlife distribution. We adopt a science- and community-based approach to mitigate human-wildlife incidents.

The Wildlife Act serves to strengthen the protection, preservation and management of wildlife in Singapore. It prohibits the feeding, release, killing, trapping, taking, and keeping of wildlife without a written approval from the Director-General/Wildlife Management, and regulates the import, sale, and export of wildlife.

The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation provides veterinary care and rehabilitation for wild animals in Singapore and builds NParks’ expertise in the rescue, treatment and release of wildlife. It also enhances NParks’ biosurveillance and wildlife population research capabilities, and is key to our science- and community-based approach to wildlife management and conservation.

If you are an animal management company dealing with wildlife, please go here for more information on the requirements relating to approvals under the Wildlife Act.

For information on animal management courses required for personnel dealing with wildlife, please go here.