Natural Characteristics And Elements Of Yishun ✦ Secure & Quick

Yishun’s northeastern edge brushes against the Mandai-Khatrit corridor , a green link of secondary forest. Walk along Milkweed Path (off Yishun Avenue 1), and you’ll hear banded woodpeckers chiseling dead albizia trees. At dusk, fruit bats glide between figs and rubber trees—remnants of 1960s kampung plantations.

From May to August, the common palm civet calls—a throaty, rhythmic "khok-khok" echoing through estate trees. Crickets, of course. But also the low hum of toads from Yishun Pond , where rain lilies bloom overnight after a storm. natural characteristics and elements of yishun

Underneath the HDB blocks lies marine clay and old alluvium —heavy, fertile, and quick to flood before drainage improved. Yishun is subtly hilly; Yishun Hill near Blk 700+ offers one of the few natural elevation points in northern SG, where you can feel the wind change direction before rain. From May to August, the common palm civet