News: Parks

Singapore Sports Hub launches first sports, art and heritage walking trail

The Singapore Sports Hub has launched the first sports, art and heritage walking trail titled The Kallang Story: A Sports, Arts and Heritage Trail. The walking trail is a community project…

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Jun 19, 2019 Arts / Culture / Education / Environment / Parks /

 
 

World Leisure invites entries for 2019 International Innovation Prize

The World Leisure Organization (WLO) has opened a call for entries to the eighth edition of the World Leisure International Innovation Prize. The Prize seeks to recognise organisations…

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Feb 28, 2019 Arts / Parks / Play / Recreation / Sport /

 
 

World Leisure welcomes new members to its board of directors

World Leisure has announced that four new members - from Australia, Brazil, China and Turkey - have joined its Board of Directors. Set to serve for the period 2019 to 2021. They were…

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Feb 25, 2019 Education / Parks / Recreation / Tourism /

 
 

Japanese inspired attraction caters to rising visitor numbers at Gardens by the Bay Singapore

Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay new outdoor attraction, Serene Garden, is a unique horticultural garden inspired by the minimalist concept of Japanese zen gardens. Created by Japanese…

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Dec 1, 2018 Attractions / Design / Environment / Parks / Recreation /

 
 

Dunedin to host 2022 World Leisure Congress

Dunedin and the University of Otago have successfully bid for the 2022 World Leisure Congress, which will bring between 500 and 1000 international delegates to the city and an estimated…

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Nov 12, 2018 Education / Parks / Recreation / Tourism /

 
 

China to create massive national park to protect Siberian Tiger and Amur Leopard

China is reportedly planning to create a vast national park of 14,600 kilometres² to protect endangered Siberian Tigers and Amur leopards. The Jilin provincial forestry department…

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Mar 20, 2017 Environment / Parks / Tourism /

 
 

69 killed in suicide bomb attack at Pakistan park

At least 69 people have been killed and about 300 injured – many of them women and children – in a suicide bombing by the Taliban at a public park in the Pakistani city of…

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Mar 28, 2016 Attractions / Legal / Parks / Security /

 
 

IUCN summit delivers major commitments to save Earth’s most precious natural areas

With a commitment to an ambitious agenda to safeguard the planet’s natural assets, ranging from halting rainforest loss in the Asia-Pacific and tripling ocean protection off…

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Nov 20, 2014 Environment / Government / Parks / Recreation / Tourism /

 
 

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