KFBG Blog
KFBG’s Harvest Festival Event Report
Activity Report
KFBG's Harvest Festival was held at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden on 28th and 29th November. The theme of the festival was ‘Celebrate and Appreciate Nature's Gifts'. The event attracted a to...
'Slow Is Beautiful - Learning Ecological Wisdom from Asian Traditions' Transformative Workshop 2015
Activity Report
Our invited guest, Keibo Oiwa, a Japanese cultural anthropologist, environmentalist, and public speaker led his first 5-day residential workshop with KFBG. The workshop was very popular and we even h...
‘When Quantum Physics Meets Daoism’ Transformative Workshop 2015
Activity Report
Shantena Augusto Sabbadini, a teacher from Schumacher College, UK, returned to visit us here at KFBG for a second time. A small reunion was held on 21 October for the previous year's workshop partic...
Working with local people, KCC bolsters the future of Hainan Gibbons
China Eco Tales
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission's Primate Specialist Group named 2015 the ‘Year of the Gibbon', with an aim to focus efforts from all s...
Recent Animal Release Nov – Dec 2015
Animal Stories
Small-toothed Ferret Badger (Melogale moschata) A juvenile Ferret Badger was found in Sai Kung on 11 September 2015 in a weak condition. It was rescued by the SPCA and passed to the Wild Animal Resc...
The 21st Kadoorie Brothers Memorial Race
Activity Report
The 21st Kadoorie Brothers Memorial Race was held on 20 December, 2015 (Sunday). The race is held in memory of the Kadoorie brothers, Lord Lawrence and Sir Horace.The length of the course is 5.3 km a...
The 7th Wild Animal Rescue Network Conference
Activity Report
Three staff of the Fauna Conservation Department, Tan Kit Sun, Tamari Yu and Toni Ngai, attended the 7th East and Southeast Asian Wild Animal Rescue Network Conference (WARN conference) from 23 to 27...
The endangered chestnut tree fruited for the first time in KFBG
KFBG Diary
After more than 15 years of careful nurturing the very rare and endangered chestnut tree Castanopsis concinna fruited for the first time in KFBG's Oak Seed Garden. The tree can grow up to 25 meters t...
Green Hub Gets Grand Opening
Activity Report
We held a grand opening ceremony for the Green Hub (the Old Tai Po Police Station) on 6 November 2015. Although the Green Hub first opened its doors back in August, this event was the official launch...
‘Energy of Nature’ reconnects people with trees
Activity Report
We were delighted to welcome Dr. Claire Elouard to KFBG again to lead an ‘Energy of Nature' Workshop (Level 1) between 30 September and 4 October 2015, for 15 participants. This workshop provi...