Ecologically based urban forestry in Hong Kong

Abstract

Biodiversity and self-sustainability have been being promoted in order to enrich the ecological value in Hong Kong's greening work. Yet, apart from planting more trees in the city, the quality of each pieces of green could be critical and fundamental to achieve good quality of urban forestry. There are a lot of potential existing greening works that we could further develop, and enrich in order to achieve a higher ambition of self-sustainable and diversify forestry. Hong Kong should consider self-sustainable urban forestry as the strategic development in landscape. On the other hand, the exotic species which hinder the development of self-sustainability should be taken into the consideration in order to build a truly self-sustainable and low replacement urban forestry. This thesis intends to rebuild and bring back the self-sustainable natural forestry concept to urban forestry. This initiates a new possibility of greening work practice and demonstrates an urban forestry design with higher ecological value. The principle is applicable to other potential green area, and by improving those area, biodiversity and self-sustaining forestry across the city is not impossible.