Fung Yuen Butterfly Reserve
Introduction
Location:
Fung Yuen Culture & Education Centre:
150, Fung Yuen Village, Ting Kok Road,
Tai Po, New Territories
How to go there?
•Take public minibus 20C or 20K at Tai
Po (get off the minibus at the entrance
to Fung Yuen Village)
•Walk straight along Fung Yuen Road
for about 10 minutes
• Cross the bridge, and you can see
the Fung Yuen Culture & Education
centre.
Fung Yuen butterfly reserve
-Includes 144 different types of butterflies
-There are 17 kinds of rare species
Fung Yuen
-The Original Building PlanCheung Kong (Holdings) Limited ("Cheung Kong
Holdings") planned to build:
-212 Three storey western-style houses
-8 Twenty-eight floor high-rise building
-Only 50m far from the butterfly reserve
-The up limit no of unit provided:1428
Negative Impacts
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Pollutions: light, noise, air
Expand the concrete area
Reduce the green area
Badly affect micro-climate
Damage the butterflies’ habitat
Lower butterflies’ stability and diversity
Scare butterflies
Our suggestions
• Reduce the no. of the houses from212 to 120
• No high-rise buildings
• Build western-style house and villa
Sell at a higher price
Developer
gets more
benefits
• Prolong
the buffer
zone from
50m to 200m
• Promote more about the reserve to public
Raise their awareness of protecting
the reserve
The advantages of suggestions
A win-win plan!!!!!!!!!!!!
For the developer
For the environment
Gain profits
Protect the habitat of the butterflies
Better reputation
Less pollution
Reduce the production cost
More open space
Fully use of resources
Reduce the emission of greenhouse gases