Lung Chu Street Wall Trees

Eighteen odd mature banyans along the stone walls of the nullah in Lung Chu Street, Sham Shui Po were planned to be felled. CA conducted a green ribbon campaign on 20 March 2006 and urged the Drainage Services Department to withdraw the plan of felling the trees immediately.

The wall trees along the nullah have significant ecological and cultural values, chopping them down amounts to a great loss to Hong Kong. The main reason of felling all those wall trees was to cover the nullah to solve the problem of bad odour. But the problem was solved by DSD by removing illegal dumping of contaminated water.

The Conservancy Association believed that the only way to solve the problem was to clean up the source of pollution, not to cover it up. After several meetings, DSD preliminary agreed that eight wall trees would be preserved.

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