We Need Nature for Our Physical and Mental Well-being
Nature is not simply about protecting plants and animals – it’s also good for the soul, and vital for our society’s long-term well-being.
Wild About Hong Kong - hiking, wildlife, conservation and more
Wild About Hong Kong - hiking, wildlife, conservation and more
Category Hong Kong conservation
Hong Kong Countryside Needs You!
Grassroots support for conservation is building, and surely now ahead of the government, and especially developers who too often seem out of touch with our changing society
Sparrows the scapegoats for H5N1 in chicken farm
Why is it microbiologists seem so ignorant of evolution and so forth? Too many seem to treat viruses as chemicals, not lifeforms subject to evolution. Ah, isn’t ignorance bliss, especially when you’re an “expert”. Today’s (6 Jan 2009) South China…
WWF Hong Kong Save Our Seas video and petition
WWF Hong Kong has launched a Save Our Seas campaign, aimed at combatting over-fishing. Just produced a short video, filmed by Hong Kong Outdoors contributor Charles Frew. You can watch the video online, including on YouTube: WWF Hong Kong SOS…
Hillfires
Every year, Hong Kong’s hillsides are afflicted by fires, especially in late autumn and winter.
Great White Shark Culling?
Perhaps one other alternative we haven't considered is actually banning marine users from the favoured feeding areas of Great White Sharks.
Lantau Sustainable Development Plan
An alternative to the Concept Plan for Lantau - with proposed projects that may actually be sustainable.
Hong Kong fish sos
WWF Hong Kong is taking full page advertisements in Hong Kong’s newspapers, asking the Government and the AFCD to explain why they have failed to provide responsible stewardship of Hong Kong’s fish resources.
HK fish need help
The following is an email from Dr. Andy Cornish, which shows how you can support planned measures that could greatly help Hong Kong’s severely depleted fish stocks. In short (and 7 years after it was first recommended!) the Agriculture, Fisheries…
HK Deep Bay threats
Last decade, the future looked bright for the Deep Bay wetland, in northwest Hong Kong. The British and Chinese governments agreed to list it under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance – showing they recognised it should be…
Sham Chung qns for SHK
So far, Sun Hung Kai seems to have a really poor record of activities at Sham Chung. [No answers forthcoming to these questions.]
Sham Chung Shenanigans
With its traditional hamlets, old woods, setting in a basin ringed by hills within Sai Kung Country Park, Sham Chung should be one of the jewels in the crown of wild Hong Kong. Instead, it has suffered environmental vandalism. Though…