Where can we find woodland in HK today?

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Visiting Kowloon Park
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Trees in Kowloon Park
Red Sandalwood
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Phoenix roebelenii
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Lagerstroemia speciosa
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Shape and Size of Leaves

• Most of leaves are very small
• Most of them are green at that time
• Some leaves have drip tips
• Some leaves are broad

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Where can we find woodland in HK today?
Shing Mun
Lion Rock
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Sai Kung East
Pat Sin Leng
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Characteristics of woodland in Hong Kong

• - Occupying 40 of land in Hong Kong
• - Having similar characteristics of tropical
  rainforest
• - Distributing broadly
• Wide variety types of plants
• - Lots of evergreen plants

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Problems against Woodland

• Deforestation
• More CO2 and less O2
• Causing global warming
• Hill fire
• Many occurring around Ching Ming Festival
• Therefore woodland becomes less and less.

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Causes of Problems

• Not enough land
• Logging to get land for commercial and industrial
  uses
• Not having enough money
• Selling timber to earn
• People being careless
• Causing hill fire
• People being selfish greedy
• Deforesting in a high rate

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How do these problems affect our lives ?

• Burning the forest putting a great amount of
  ashes into the atmosphere
• Poor air quality
• Air pollution
• Causing respiratory diseases
• Large rate of increase

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• Deforestation
• Decreasing in oxygen production in the world and
  less photosynthesis occurring
• Leading to global warming
• A rise of 2? may double the frequency of typhoons
  and increase the power of typhoons by 50.
• May lose many potential food and drugs

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Solution for the problems

• Banning illegal logging
• Seriously restricting cutting down of trees
• Dont throw away burning matches or cigarette
  ends to the woodland
• May cause serious hill fire under dry weather
• Dont light fire balloon.
• May destroy woodland and threaten lives and
  properties

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• During grave sweeping,
• removing weeds around the grave by hand-tools
• burning joss sticks and paper only in containers.
• Never burn rubbish, weeds or grasses!!!
• When the Yellow or Red Fire Danger Warning signal
  being present, take extra care to prevent hill
  fires.
• If you see a hill fire, leave the fire scene
  immediately, and then ring 999 to report the
  fire.

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• Deforestation can only be solved if people stop
  wasting resources.
• Controlling population size
• Less people, less timber would be used
• Massive deforestation would be slowed down

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Best use of woodland

• To carry out photosynthesis that absorbs carbon
  dioxide and releases oxygen
• Hence woodland makes air fresher
• Dense forest can protect the soil from erosion
• Trees on hills can prevent landslides in rainy
  days

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• Birds and animals live there and have
  reproduction
• Many potential food and medicine could be found
  there
• Timber is the material for making furniture

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Feelings
We think we have learnt a lot in this
project. We know much about the trees and leaves
as well as the problems against woodland.
Lets tell you some funny things! On the
visiting day, one bird excreted on one of our
members hand. We all laughed at him. How
amazing! Finally, we all think that
doing this project increases our knowledge and
interests of forests. Therefore we want to do
this kind of project again if we have the
chance.
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GEOGRAPHY PROJECT

• Member list
• 3C Chu Hiu Yan (6)
• 3C Leung Wing Sze (13)
• 3C Ng Wai Ping (15)
• 3C Au Ka Kin (22)
• 3C Fong Wai Kan (27)
• 3C Wong Chun Kwan (35)

The End