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Activity
Reviews 2006 |
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1."Shell
Nature Watch – Butterfly Explorer" Ceremony cum
Butterfly Information AnnouncementInformation
2.Shell
Butterfly Club
3.Life
of Butterfly Exhibition
4. Butterfly
Learning Class
5. Shell
Butterfly Watching Day
6.Butterfly
Monitoring Team
7. Butterfly
Exploratory Overseas Tour
8. Common
Butterfly Poster
9.
Hong Kong Butterfly
Photography Contest Photo Album |
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"Shell
Nature Watch – Butterfly Explorer" Ceremony cum
Butterfly Information Announcement
| Date |
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7 May 2006 (Sun) |
| Venue |
：
Main Entrance, G/F, World Trade Centre, Causeway
Bay, HK |
| Time |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
| Guests |
：
Dr Sarah Liao, Secretary for Environment, Transport
and Works
 Mr
Andy Ku, Director of Shell Hong Kong Limited
Dr
Man Chi Sum, Chief Executive Officer of Green Power
Dr
Cheng Luk Ki, Division Head of Scientific Research
& Conservation
of Green Power |
In the ceremony,
various activities planned for the year were announced.
They included the holding of Life of Butterfly Exhibition,
setting up of Shell Butterfly Club, and the publication
of Common Butterfly Poster and Hong Kong Butterfly Photography
Contest Photo Album. These activities were organized
in the hope of raising public awareness of butterfly
ecology and encouraging more people to commit to the
protection of butterflies in Hong Kong.
Dr Sarah Liao, Patron of the project and Mr Andy Ku,
Director of Shell Hong Kong Limited presented the appointment
certificate to student representative of Butterfly Monitoring
Team. 160 teachers and students from 40 secondary schools
then officially became members of the Team. Upon receiving
a series of butterfly watch training, they would go
to various butterflies hotspots in Hong Kong and conducted
survey of butterfly diversity at the sites. They would
also organize different kinds of activities in the community
to promote butterfly watching among the public.
Green Power also announced the data of butterfly species
collected in Lung Kwu Tan, Tuen Mun in 2004 and 2005.
The data revealed that within a single year local butterfly
species were reduced by 30%; the number of Very Rare
and Rare species even declined by half. Lung Kwu Tan
is the only butterfly hotspot in New Territories West.
The situation indicated that ecological environment
of the area was under threat. Dr. Cheng Luk Ki, Division
Head of Scientific Research & Conservation of Green
Power, pointed out that there has been rapid development
including small houses and large scale infrastructures
near Lung Kwu Tan in recent years, and new crowds, air,
water and noise pollution would be brought to the neighboring
environment. The most worrying thing was that the imbalance
of development and environment might risk Siu Lang Shui,
the largest winter roosting site in southern China for
Blue Spotted Crow (Euploea midamus). Dr. Cheng
suggested the government to protect the area as a Site
of Special Scientific Interest, and even designate the
nearby Castle Peak as Country Park for ecological restoration
work.
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Dr
Sarah Liao, Patron of “Shell Nature Watch – Butterfly
Explorer” |
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The
guests and representatives from Butterfly Monitoring
Team took photograph together. |
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Dr.
Cheng Luk Ki displayed the car racing circuit
under expansion at Lung Kwu Tan. The expanded
circuit will bring more crowds and pollution,
affecting the hillside habitat for butterflies.
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Life
of Butterfly Exhibition
Life of Butterfly Exhibition was held in
World Trade Centre, Causeway Bay and Festival Walk,
Kowloon Tong in May 2006. Precious and beautiful butterfly
photographs were displayed and the public was encouraged
to go to the countryside and watch the butterflies first
hand. The exhibition took the audience through butterfly
ecology from alternative and interesting perspectives,
for instance, how butterflies reject courting, whether
they stay as a pair, and how to identify their sexes,
etc. A short video on butterflies was also shown. There
was a "Family Colour-filling Game on Butterfly"
too.
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Butterfly
Learning Class
| Date |
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23 September 2006 (Sat) |
| Venue |
： Lam
Woo International Conference Centre, Hong Kong Baptist
University |
| Time |
： 14:30
– 16:00 |
The Class was specially designed for members of Shell
Butterfly Club to learn about butterfly ecology and
butterfly watching techniques. Members had keen interests
and asked many questions.
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Shell Butterfly Watching
Day
| Date |
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24 September 2006 (Sat) |
| Venue |
： Shing
Mun Reservoir Country Park |
| Time |
： 09:30
– 11:30 |
An activity for Shell Butterfly Club members which about
a hundred members joined and watched butterflies together.
Butterfly Monitoring Team members took up the role as
ecological instructors on that day. Participants enjoyed
a day of butterfly watching and learned how to identify
butterflies.
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Butterfly
Monitoring Team
In
the past two years, 320 secondary school teachers and
students were trained to become members of Butterfly
Monitoring Team. This year, another 160 new members
were recruited who continued the monitoring work. Coming
from 40 secondary schools, they formed groups of four
consisting of one teacher and three students. They underwent
a series of training from April through August to learn
about butterfly watching techniques and recording method.
They then went to five butterflies hotspots and conducted
survey on butterfly diversity to record butterfly species
and population. Hong
Kong butterfly databasewas
updated to keep track of the change in the ecological
environment of local butterflies.
In addition, Butterfly Monitoring Team members organized
butterfly conservation activities in the community,
utilizing the newly learned knowledge. They held butterfly
exhibition and booth game in shopping malls, conducted
butterfly workshops in primary schools and centres for
the mentally handicapped, published and distributed
butterfly watch guidebooks in their communities. They
promoted the message of butterfly conservation and the
culture of butterfly watching to different sectors of
our society. Members who performed with excellency had
the chance to join the Butterfly Exploratory Overseas
Tour to visit and exchange with people overseas.
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Butterfly
Exploratory Overseas Tour
| Date |
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21st – 25th
August, 2006 |
| Venue |
： Taiwan
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Description:
40 teams were trained to become members of Butterfly
Monitoring Team, conducted survey on butterfly diversity
and organized butterfly conservation activities in the
community. 20 team members who excelled in performance
were selected to join an overseas trip to interflow
with butterfly conservation workers in "The Butterfly
Kingdom", Taiwan, starting from the north to the
south of Taiwan, Kenting National Park. They observed
over 50 species of butterflies, conducted night visits
to the forest, visited a private butterfly farm and
one of the two largest butterfly valleys in the world
- Purple Butterfly Valley. The team members have gained
new experiences on Taiwan’s butterfly nature and environmental
protection.
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Participating Schools |
| Buddhist
Tai Hung College |
| Queen's
College Old Boys' Association Secondary School |
| HKSYC
& IA Chan Nam Chong Memorial College |
| Baptist
Wing Lung Secondary |
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St. Stephen's Church Collage |
Itinerary:
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Time |
Event |
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21/8 |
Morning
Afternoon
Evening |
Arrival
Visit – Buguashan Insect Farm
Night Visit －Ecology of Nocturnal Frogs |
| 22/8 |
Morning
Afternoon
Evening |
Experience in Taumi Ecological Village in Nantou
－ Caonan Wetland
Buttterfly Watching and Interflow － Endemic Species
Research Institute
Maolin National Scenic Area / Rukai Tribe barbecues
meal |
23/8
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Morning
Afternoon
Evening |
Butterfly
watching at Ecological Butterfly Valley at Musheng
River
Maolin National Scenic Area Visitor Center and
Maolin National Scenic Area － Explorer "Purple
Butterfly Valley"
Night Visit － enjoy the sight of "Flower
of Kending"and visiting Sheding Nature Park |
| 24/8 |
Morning
Afternoon
Evening |
Buttterfly
Watching － Experience in Sheding Nature Park
Lungkeng Ecological Conservation Area － the most
South coastal landscape of Taiwan
Educational Activities and Sharing
Visit to Kending Night Market |
| 25/8
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Morning |
Going to Kaohsiung International Airport and back
to Hong Kong |
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Paper
Kite
(Idea leuconoe) |
Common
Mapwing
(Cyrestis thyodamas) |
A
group of tigers and crows feeding on the juice
of silvery messerchmidia |
Big-headed
stick insect
( Megacrania alpheus) |
Common
toad
(Bufo melanostictus) |
Stag
Beetle
(Dorcus titanus sika) |
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Sharing
from team members
Sharing from team members "This is my first attempt
to explore an unfamiliar environment at night. Carrying
a torch and a fearful feeling, I walked the challenge
and discovered that night walk in a forest was quite
an experience…It would be a life-long memory for me."
Chen Chia Chi, student from St. Stephen's
Church College said.
"In these five days, I have definitely learnt something
which I would never learn from the book."
Lui Hok Kiu, student from Buddhist Tai Hung
College remarked.
"I have never liked living things other than butterflies.
Yet after the trip, I have gained the passion for other
living things such as plants and insects as well..."
Ng Tsz Shing, students from HKSYC &
IA Chan Nam Chong Memorial College said.
"I was deeply moved by the passion for nature and
ecological conservation of the staff at Taiwan Butterfly
Club… I learned to appreciate nature because of these
people… Butterfly watching is only the beginning chapter
in our contact with nature. I hope that starting from
butterfly conservation, we can extend our care to all
living things and even the whole natural environment.
I hope all of us will treasure the earth." Wong
Sau Ming, teacher from Queen's College Old
Boys' Association Secondary School remarked. |
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 Common
Butterfly Poster
Common Butterfly Poster showcases 25 common butterflies
in Hong Kong. Apart from ornamental use, the poster
is a teaching tool on butterfly forms useful for butterfly
watching in the countryside. Any member of the public
who joins Shell Butterfly Club will receive the poster
for free.
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 Hong
Kong Butterfly Photography Contest Photo Album
Hong Kong Butterfly Photography Contest Photo Album
is a 56-page, full-color book which collects the 48
selected entries of Hong Kong Butterfly Photography
Contest in 2005. Flipping through the pages of the Album,
reader can appreciate the beauty of butterflies and
the importance of conserving these butterflies and their
habitats. The Album is given for free to members of
Shell Butterfly Club who completed the online-game in
our website.
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