mangrove balloon @ berlayar creek 23May2014

Saw this orange balloon amongst the mangrove trees at Berlayar Creek (Labrador Park) today. 

Please be careful of helium filled balloons as they tend to escape one's grasp and risk eventually falling into the sea where they can be mistaken for jellyfish which is a favourite food of sea turtles or otherwise fatally entangle marine life such as birds, turtles and other animals.

Read more about why released balloons are bad news :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7447381.stm

http://balloonsblow.org/impacts-on-wildlife-and-environment

http://wildshores.blogspot.sg/2011/01/do-balloon-releases-kill-marine-life.html

http://wildshores.blogspot.sg/2011/06/balloons-and-soft-plastic-kill-sea.html

http://wildshores.blogspot.sg/2009/07/discarded-balloons-can-kill-sea-turtles.html

http://wildshores.blogspot.sg/2009/03/documented-reports-of-death-by-balloon.html

http://wildshores.blogspot.sg/2009/03/mass-balloon-release-kills.html

Balloons Blow : Don't let them go

http://balloonsblow.org/the-ugly-truth

http://balloonsblow.org/helium-depletion

http://balloonsblow.org/Outreach

Marine Conservation Society UK 'Don't let go' campaign :

http://www.mcsuk.org/downloads/pollution/dont%20let%20go.pdf

MCSUK resources :

http://www.mcsuk.org/what_we_do/Clean+seas+and+beaches/Campaigns+and+policy/Don't+Let+Go+-+resources

MCSUK booklet :

http://www.mcsuk.org/downloads/pollution/dlg/Dont_Let_Go_Booklet.pdf

MCSUK's position paper on sky lanterns and released balloons :

http://www.mcsuk.org/downloads/pollution/beachwatch/MCS_balloons_and_chinese_lanterns_policy.pdf

Balloons in the Singapore Woodlands mangrove :

http://wildshores.blogspot.sg/2009/04/weekday-woodlands-mangrove-muckabout.html

posts mass balloon release events in Singapore :

http://wildshores.blogspot.sg/2014/05/help-stop-mass-balloon-release-on-15.html

http://wildshores.blogspot.sg/2013/12/help-stop-mass-balloon-release-at.html

http://wildshores.blogspot.sg/2009/06/1300-balloons-released-at-siloso-beach.html

http://blog.dk.sg/2009/06/24/kotex-setting-a-new-singapore-record-in-polluting-the-environment-thru-mass-balloon-release/

http://blog.dk.sg/2009/03/05/why-release-60-balloons-into-the-air-to-launch-earth-hour-singapore/

http://blog.dk.sg/2009/03/22/releasing-1000-balloons-into-the-sky-as-a-symbol-of-soaring-love/

http://blog.dk.sg/2009/03/24/celebrate-marriage-without-balloons/

http://wildshores.blogspot.sg/2009/03/mass-balloon-release-kills.html

http://blog.dk.sg/2009/05/17/pink-dot-freedom-to-love-not-mass-balloon-release-pinkdot/