Bukit Timah Nature Reserve as an Education Center?

In Iowa, a team of engineers and scientists plan to build an indoor rainforest complex (the image of Jurassic Park came to my mind) for educational purposes. This US$180 million project comprises of a 3.5 acre indoor tropical rainforest, an 1.2 million gallon aquarium and also recreated wetland and prairie. Serving both as a tourist attraction and education center, project members hope to bring in some US$5 million dollars in grant money each year. Courses will be made available to schools through an existing network.

The idea sounds good and this could also be a possibility we can explore in our own backyard, using smaller plots of forests as pilot projects and maybe eventually moving to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. The education center could serve as a education hub for tropical rainforest ecology for the region. Already, several science enrichment companies are using the reserve for paid guided walks and simple ecological projects. Perhaps existing institutions such as NEA or RMBR could explore this possibility.

Science, engineering professors take an interest in rain forest