THE SWAGGER: Make conservation a resolution in 2026!

We suggest Trek for Tigers 🐅, Trees for Tigers 🌳 and Leopard Cat Quest@Ubin 🔦

Planting trees to offset carbon emissions, Trek for Tigers, December 2025. (Photos courtesy of Vilma D’Rozario)

Sustainability Report 2025: The “A” in SWAG stands for “Action”!

SWAG focused on 2 areas for action in 2025: (i) Life on Land (Goal 15 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals) and (Il) Climate Action (Goal 13).

(I) Life on Land - key achievements:

1. Malaysian Conservation Collective (MyCC) Trek for Tigers (from Aug 2025): organised 3 groups with 18 volunteers for anti-poaching surveillance walks.

2. Fundraising: contributed over SG$43,000 toward wildcat conservations efforts.

3. Local wildcat: initiated the ongoing survey of leopard cat presence at Changi with NParks.

   

   SWAG Volunteers checking the camera traps at Changi. (Photos courtesy of Vilma D’Rozario)

4. Education and outreach: held lectures and educational talks, information booths, storytelling sessions, media interviews, tiger education and drawing workshops for children, and led 200+ people on night walks.

5. Advocacy: supported efforts to combat illegal wildlife trafficking by engaging local nature organisations, fundraising for the TRAFFIC Southeast Asia’s Protecting Wildcats from Trade & Trafficking (PACT) programme, and raising awareness over various media platforms. (PACT update, 5 February 2026: Malaysian prosecutors won a guilty verdict for an illegally owned tiger skin; the judge “acknowledged the tiger's circumstance as a silent victim“.)

(II) Climate Action - highlights:

1. Emissions: total emissions were just over 6,026kg, largely associated with Trek for Tigers activities and organisation/support activities in the Korbu Forest Reserve area.

2. Offsetting: planted 75 trees in Malaysia. Total carbon sequestered from continuing growth of trees planted since 2020 up to and including 2025 was 7,834 kilograms.

SWAG works to “operationalise green” in our procurement and operational processes. Though logistic challenges may result in our activities incurring higher emissions in 2026, we are committed to managing and offsetting our carbon footprint. Read SWAG’s full sustainability report here.

L-R: Planting trees in the Sungai Yu Ecological Corridor, at the plant nursery where saplings are cultivated. (Photos courtesy of Andrew Tay)

ADVENTURES WITH BIG & LITTLE CATS!

Trek for Tigers

MyCC’s Trek for Tigers is a 3-day citizen conservation programme that takes volunteers on anti-poaching surveillance forest walks and habitat restoration at the Sungai Yu Ecological Corridor in Merapoh, Pahang. See the provisional itinerary and additional optional activities in our December 2025 newsletter.

Clockwise from top left: Rotiboy snack is a good start to an adventure!, train travel to Merapoh is a great way to minimise carbon emissions, starting the jungle trek with a short talk from MyCC’s Alex Jack, getting a whiff of wild ginger, planting Trees for Tigers on Day 3 to restore a key habitat at the Sungai Yu Ecological Corridor, citizen conservationists with Alex, Ramon and members of the local indigenous community who participate in Trek for Tigers and Trees for Tigers. (Photos courtesy of Vilma D’Rozario)

The cost for a standard 3D2N Trek for Tigers programme is RM1,400 per person. Trek for Tigers’ repeaters and students enjoy a 25% discount: RM1,050. Meals, transportation cost between Merapoh and Singapore, and optional activities are not included.

L-R: Garnet pitta, Malayan peacock pheasant and yellow-throated marten spotted on the Taman Negara Sungai Relau National Park jeep track birdwatching optional activity. (Photos courtesy of Khairun Nizam of Merapoh Adventures)

To book your spot in the programme or request for more information, email MyCC at comms@mycc-conservation.com or SWAG at admin@swagcat.org. Whilst MyCC organises the Trek for Tigers programme, SWAG is a project partner and holds pre-trip briefings for citizen conservationists embarking on Trek for Tigers.

For more updates on the Trek for Tigers programme, follow @myccfortigers and @swag.cat.sg.

Leopard Cat QUEST @Ubin

Leopard Cat QUEST @Ubin is held regularly with the next available program on 25 April 2026. This is your chance to experience Ubin by night and encounter more of Singapore’s vast biodiversity which are often overlooked on the mainland. Here are some photos from the 31 January 2026 QUEST:

Clockwise from top left: Changi coastline as we leave for Ubin, cotton strainer bugs, scorpion moult fluorescing blue under UV light, and shore pit viper - only the second time we’ve seen this species in three years of Leopard Cat QUEST@Ubin. (Photos courtesy of 1-3 Saad Chinoy and 4 Vilma D’Rozario)

Grab your friends and family for a nighttime learning adventure at Ubin! For details and registration, click here.