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Read our community declaration
Catch up in 2 minutes: what's happening, and what we want.
Maju Forest / Sunset Way, Singapore
Protecting Maju's canopy
and wildlife.
Maju Forest is a mature secondary forest in Sunset Way. 15 of its 23 hectares are proposed for clearing to make way for public housing — home to Critically Endangered species and decades of irreplaceable ecology. There is a better way to build.
What's next?
Part of the forest will be preserved — but key questions remain.
Here's how to help right now:
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Give feedback to HDB & your MPs
Write to HDB (choose “Land Use Plans”), and email your MPs — Ms Sim Ann & Mr Christopher de Souza — with our ready-made templates.
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Sunset Way residents: join in
Join our WhatsApp group, and read the collective letter 716 residents signed.
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Follow us on Instagram
@sunsetway4maju — updates, photos and actions.
15 of 23 ha
of Maju Forest proposed for clearing
47,578+
people have signed the petition
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Critically Endangered species documented here
11 Sep 2026 · Letter to the Prime Minister
A Maju Forest Climate Resilience Centre
Sunset Way residents wrote to Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and Ambassador for Climate Action Ravi Menon with an alternative: retain the forest in full as a research centre and recreational space — a living laboratory for urban cooling, biodiversity and climate adaptation, and a classroom for Singapore's schools.
716 residents
signed our collective letter to MP Christopher de Souza — a direct message from the people who live beside Maju Forest. The sign-up has now closed.
Start here
Follow the thread.
The whole story, in order — from what Maju holds, to why it's threatened, to how you can help.
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The Forest
What Maju is — the ecology, wildlife and heritage at stake.
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The Clearing
What's proposed, and what clearing 15 of 23 hectares would cost.
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Our Position
Build the homes without erasing the wild — the alternatives, and our asks.
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The Questions
The gaps in the EIA, and the questions still unanswered.
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The Record
How we got here — the timeline and the coverage.
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Participate
Write, sign, and turn up. Here's how to help today.
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What we're asking for
Before we clear a forest, demonstrate why.
From A Community Declaration for Maju Forest, by concerned residents of Sunset Way. Three things we ask before any forest is cleared:
This is not unprecedented
Public feedback has changed plans before.
In 2021, roughly 1,800 residents spoke up for Dover Forest — and the plans changed, preserving part of the forest. At Tengah, where only 16 responses came in, clearing went ahead.
And it is happening here: after residents' feedback, MND said in August that more of Maju will be retained.
The lesson is simple: numbers matter, and it is not too late. Master Plans have been redrawn before — Sungei Buloh and Chek Jawa were both once slated for development, and both were saved. Maju can be next.
Housing serves Singapore for decades. A forest, if given the chance, serves Singapore for centuries.
What clearing Maju would destroy
A living ecosystem, decades in the making.
Maju is home to the Sunda pangolin and the straw-headed bulbul — both Critically Endangered, both documented in the government's own environmental studies. A mature forest cools the neighbourhood, cleans the air, and offers people a rare place of quiet. None of it can be replanted overnight.
In solidarity
Maju isn't the only forest under threat.
Across town in Telok Blangah, our friends at Save Gillman Forest are fighting the same fight — a mature forest facing clearance for housing, with the same gaps in how its human and climate impacts were weighed. It's not just about Maju; it's about the loss of any forest in Singapore. What's decided here will shape how the city treats every remaining wild space.
Add your name
Every signature is a voice for the forest.
The petition asks HDB, MND, URA and NParks to pause clearance, publish the studies, and build the homes without erasing the wild.
47,578
of 100,000 signatures
48%
As of 1 October 2026. Sign to push the count higher.
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