Renamed the Wildlife Act, the law will now empower the National Parks Board's (NParks) director-general of wildlife management to issue directions to developers to carry out wildlife-related measures to safeguard wildlife, public health or safety, or the health of the ecosystem.

This will help ensure that preventive strategies - such as the installation of hoarding along the perimeter of a development to prevent animals from ending up as roadkill - can be taken, instead of the authorities being able to act only after an animal is found dead.