Shifting wetlands attitudes in Singapore and Perth: Tracing metaphors, values and mobilising publics on site

Wetlands are afforded importance for planetary health in times shaped by environmental crises, attributed roles as various and contradictory as filters (as ‘kidneys’), sinks, potential sites for useful organisms, and as potential landsites following reclamation (as ‘terraforming’). These anthropocentric attitudes can be traced on site, both in curated tourist sites and in accompanying museums, where the narratives draw on these roles as well as placing them into national or colonial discourses. In Singapore and Perth, communities have mobilised protests that push back on these attitudes, creating temporary coalitions across species borders to instil ‘stays’ on development. This article was published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .