Prof Peter Ng:

"I love the dodo bird, it's the icon of extinction. Man wiped it out in less than 100 years, and there isn't a single preserved specimen left.

"We recreated our model at the museum based on bones, skeletons and literature on the bird. We named it Clarence, and it's the most accurate recreation around. Even the world's dodo experts agree.

"It shows that the creature was not the clumsy, stupid bird it has often been depicted as.

"We are living in a world that is losing 50 to 100 species every single day. Singapore has already lost about half its animal species in the last 200 years, we need to act fast to slow this trend."

credits to The Straits Time, Nov 7 2009

SY: There is a pressing need for us to do something to slow down this trend. We all know these facts. We cannot leave this responsibility to our future generations. Let's play our part!