The Flora Conservation Department of KFBG is recruiting dedicated nature lovers to donate their time and talent to KFBG’s mission. Join us as volunteers and strengthen flora conservation efforts at KFBG and throughout Hong Kong.

Volunteer Opportunities:

Assisting Routine Work in Orchid Conservation Section
Assist Orchid Conservation Section in planting and maintaining the orchids and their environment, including routine potting, mounting and maintenance of orchids, and sweeping and weeding of orchid growing environments

Assisting in Culturing Native Herbs and Shrubs
Volunteers will be directed by staff and take part in duties stated below:

  1. Routine work: composting, soil sterilizing and mixing, weeding watering, weeding
  2. After training: re-potting, pricking out of seedlings, planting out of stock seedlings

 

Habitat Management at KFBG (HM)

  1. General horticulture or nursery routine work, such as weeding, applying fertilizer, pot plants transportation, pruning, transplanting and sweeping, etc; or
  2. Heavy duties in Nurseries, including terrace leveling, soil sieving and soil and stone transferring.

Please judge by yourselves if you are fit for the heavy duties mentioned in content point 2). If you are unsure your fitness or you do not want to do the heavy duties, please indicate it in your application.

Assist the Upper Gardens Team (UGT) to maintain theme gardens
With guidance from staff, volunteers will take care of plants in different theme gardens (Orchid Haven, Fern Walk, Butterfly Garden, Convent Garden or Golden Pavilion), including watering, weeding, and planting.

Plant Encounters

(Only available in Chinese)

Other irregular volunteering activities includes:
Assisting Ecological restoration monitoring in KFBG tree planting site
Working on the ecological enhancement restoration project on the Butterfly Path

*Working days are normally from Monday to Saturday.

How to apply

Please click here for online application.

Before you apply, please read the Flora Conservation Volunteer Programme Introduction & Conditions.

Due to limited parking space, volunteers are recommended to take public transportation to KFBG.

You may contact floravol@kfbg.org for further questions or information.

Once receiving your application, we will contact you by email shortly.