Geography project Deforestation in Hong Kong

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Geography project
Deforestation in Hong Kong

GROUP MEMBERS CHAN MAN YI (1) CHENG WING KAN
(3) LAM KA YAN (11) WONG LAI SHAN (17) YAU CHEUK
YAN (19) FU YEUNG TIM (27) TAI TSZ HO ( 38)
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Contents

• Where can we find woodland in Hong Kong today?
• What are the characteristics of woodland in Hong
  Kong?
• What are the problems of woodland in Hong Kong?
• What are the causes of the problems?
• How do these problems affects our lives?
• Are we able to solve the problems?
• What is the best use of our woodland?
• How can we help protect our woodland and tropical
  rainforest?
• Our photos
• Comment
• References
• The end

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Where can we find woodland in Hong Kong today?
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Where can we find woodland in Hong Kong today!?

• 1. The blue point is the starting point(Ko Tong
  Ha Yeung),The yellow point is the terminal
  point(Hoi Ha).The pink line is a route where we
  walked.
• 2.The distance is about 6.5km and we walked for
  about 4.3hours.
• We went to Ko Tong by No.94 bus.

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What are the characteristics of woodland in Hong
Kong?
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Density of vegetation Floor of the woodland
?Floor of the woodland very light
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Variety of vegetation
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Variety of vegetation
climbing plants?
bushes?
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Variety of vegetation
Lichens?
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Height of vegetation
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Roots of vegetation
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Shape and size of leaves
?Broad leaves with drip tips
fallen leaves?
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What are the problems of woodland in Hong Kong?
What are the problems of woodland in Hong Kong?

• In Hong Kong, some trees are disused and some
  trees have been destroyed .
• Hong Kong's woodland also have many rubbish
• Hong Kong is easy to catch a fire during the dry
  period

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What are the problems of woodland in Hong Kong?
What are the problems of woodland in Hong Kong?

• Some woodlands in Hong Kong are dense, it will be
  easy to save water but the mosquitoes are
  thriving too.

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What are the causes of the problems?

• People need paper to do many things so they cut
  the trees.
• When people burn something in woodland, they
  leave the fire so the woodland will be burnt.
  Plants will also be destroyed.
• Heavy rainfall causes soil erosion
• People have no civism so they throw rubbish
  everywhere including the woodland.

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How do these problems affect our lives?
How do these problems affect our lives?

• Poor air quality
• ?Produce oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide
  through photosynthesis. When extensive areas of
  trees are cut down or burnt, a decrease in oxygen
  production and an increase of the amount of
  carbon dioxide will be resulted.
• ?Burning the forest puts a great amount of ashes
  into the atmosphere .This can lead to serious air
  pollution.

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How do these problems affect our lives?
How do these problems affect our lives?

• The greenhouse effect and global warming
• ?Burning forest releases great amount of carbon
  dioxide and ashes into the atmosphere. This
  produces thick layers of carbon dioxide in the
  sky. These layers trap the suns heat released
  from the ground and raise the worlds average
  temperature.
• ?Deforestation affects us as it causes global
  warming . A rise of 2? may double the frequency
  of typhoons and increases the power of typhoons
  by 50!

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How do these problems affect our lives?
How do these problems affect our lives?

• The loss of potential food and medicine
• ?Deforestation destroys the ground for medical
  and agricultural studies. As a result, we lose
  many potential food and drugs.

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Are we able to solve the problems?

• Plant more trees
• Dont throw rubbish in the wrong place
• Dont cut too many trees
• Join trees-planting programmes

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What is the best use of our woodland?

• Woodland provides habitat for a great variety of
  plants and animals.
• Woodland is rich in natural resources such as
  timber from hardwood and mineral resources for
  industrial development.
• A lot of basic raw materials such as oil, gold,
  bauxite and diamonds are often found in the
  woodland

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What is the best use of our woodland?

• Woodland can help to maintain a stable
  environment.
• Trees absorb carbon dioxide and release a large
  amount of oxygen to support all living things in
  the world .
• Woodland plays a very important role in the
  water cycle.

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How can we help protect our woodland and tropical
rainforest?
How can we help protect our woodland and tropical
rainforest?

• setting up national park?it can help to conserve
  valuable wild plants and animals
• learn more about the woodland and tropical
  rainforests?through books,magazines and the
  internet?let children know how to protect our
  woodland and tropical rainforests.

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How can we help protect our woodland and tropical
rainforest?

• selective logging?only trees with high
  commercial value are allowed for logging?most of
  the trees in tropical rainforests should be left
  standing.

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How can we help protect our woodland and tropical
rainforest?

• small patch cutting ?only a small patch of
  forests should be cleared
• ban on logging ?in the most seriously deforested
  areas, all logging and farming activities should
  be banned.

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How can we help protect our woodland and tropical
rainforest?

• support environmental bodies?we can donate money
  to them?support their efforts to save the
  woodland and tropical rainforests
• we can also join trees-planting programmes to
  increase awareness and promote re-forestation.

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Our photos
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Our photos
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Comment

• In this trip, we learnt many things such as
  many different plants. The road are very long and
  the sun is high up in the sky but the views along
  the roads are very beautiful. Hence, we feel it
  worthy. Also, it gave us a chance to walk into
  the forests and enjoyed the fresh air.

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References

• exploring geography3A--an issue-based approach
• Geography notes
• http//www.afcd.gov.hkhttp//www.greenpeace.org.h
  khttp//www.treesforlife.org.au/http//www.ran.o
  rg/http//www.info.gov.hk/epd

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References

•  http//hk.yahoo.com/
• ?http//alumni-www.cityu.edu.hk/aacityu/doc/Map20
  001.doc?http//shindekun.hp.infoseek.co.jp/Home/I
  mages/Favorites/Hokkaido/Flo_002_Nanohana.jpg?htt
  p//www.google.com.tw/?http//www.kmb.hk/chinese.
  php?

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The end