The National Heritage Board, the National Parks Board, as well as the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth are seeking the local public’s comments on a document requesting UNESCO to list the Singapore Botanic Gardens as a World Heritage Site.
The Nomination Document has already been drafted and can be viewed on the Singapore Botanic Gardens website.
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Members of the public have four months—deadline December 6—to send feedback on the draft describing the Gardens and the reason for its nomination. The second phase of the public consultation, beginning November, opens another part of the Nomination Dossier—the Site Management Plan—to feedback.
Once all the comments have been considered for inclusion in the bid, the Nomination Dossier due February next year will be sent to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
The city’s 74-hectare green lung was founded in 1859 while Singapore was still under colonial rule, and currently sits on UNESCO’s ‘Tentative List’.
