On World Animal Day (4 Oct), please consider Hong Kong's role in the trade of native and exotic wildlife. Hong Kong is a gateway to mainland China and it is an important hub for the exotic pet tr...
We have just launched a 6-month pilot project that focuses on snakes from Lantau Island. The project allows accredited and willing snake catchers to release rescued healthy native snakes immediately ...
We receive many calls from citizens who have found a baby bird or an injured bird. Some worry that the bird is hungry and feed it food such as rice, green peas or bread before sending it to the resc...
Our Wild Animal Rescue Centre receives many baby or infant animals having fallen from nests or been separated from their parents. The best carers for young animals are their own parents. We recentl...
Conservation Research: Ground-breaking Turtle and Tortoise Study Challenging Evolutionary Theories of Ageing
25 July 2022
25 July 2022
Even though humans live longer lives compared to their ancestors, we cannot escape the inevitability of aging. However, it may be possible to slow that trend: a new study of ageing in tortoises and t...
The Common Spotted Flat (Celaenorrhinus leucocera) is a rare butterfly in Hong Kong that is more frequently observed at KFBG it is one of our signature butterfly species. The larvae like to eat the ...
Have you ever wondered how bees create perfect hexagon shapes while constructing their honeycomb nests? After pondering this question while staring at a piece of perfectly formed honeycomb from a wil...
The baby bird season has arrived and the KFBG Wild Animal Rescue Centre is experiencing daily deliveries of rescued nestlings. Thanks to the rapid call out responses of the SPCA and their dedicated t...
This is a new wildlife trade report published by ADM Capital Foundation Wild, Threatened, Farmed: Hong Kong's Invisible Pets sheds light on the scale and nature of the city's exotic pet trade, iden...
Young nestling Collared Scops Owls are loveable birds, that often arrive from rescue looking like white fluff balls and grow up resembling a piece of tree bark with a pair of big eyes. These owls ar...