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The Conservancy Association
長春社
TypeNon-Governmental Organisation
Location
  • Hong Kong
Websitehttp://www.cahk.org.hk

The Conservancy Association (Chinese: 長春社) is a Hong Kong non-governmental organisation founded in 1968.

The organisation focuses on the protection of the environment and the conservation of natural and cultural heritage. It also seeks to enhance the quality of life of both current and future generations, and to ensure that Hong Kong shoulders her regional and global environmental responsibilities. The organisation advocates appropriate policies, monitors government action, promotes environmental education and takes a lead in community participation.

CAHK

History

In 1967, John H. Pain (1930–2018) of Hong Kong Tourist Association, Prof. Brian Loft (1929 - 2015) of the University of Hong Kong, Jeremy Brown of Jardine Matheson and a Scottish lady Agnes Black formed a rambling group called "Bauhina's Circle". Their regard for the Hong Kong countryside came at the right time as the Hong Kong government made plans in 1968 for a "Provisional Council for the Use and Conservation of the Countryside", an idea from a government-commissioned report "Conservation of the Hong Kong Countryside" by Lee M. Talbot. The idea of forming an association came during one of these walks when they saw the destruction of the village land. In October 1968, they gathered at Helena May Institute and declared themselves "the Conservancy Association" - thus was born the first ever green group of Hong Kong.

Soon they recruited Robert N. Rayne of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, together with Prof. S. Y. Hu of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Michael A. Webster, a keen bird-watcher, Sir Lindsay Ride, former Vice Chancellor of Hong Kong University and the others. Father H. Naylor of Wah Yan College, was invited by Robert N. Rayne. In 1971, Dr. Ding Lik-kiu was invited by John H. Pain to join the association.

At a 1972 workshop, members of the association reached a consensus that Hong Kong's countryside was threatened and would "cease to exist in an acceptable form" unless concrete action was taken to protect it. The association also considered pollution in urban areas an imminent threat to public health. It pressed the government to take action to turn Hong Kong from "one of the dirtiest, and potentially unhealthiest, cities in Asia to one of the cleanest, with clean air, clean water, clean streets, and community-conscious people."

Since then, the association positioned itself as a pressure group on environmental issues and launched a series of campaigns. In the early 1970s the association opposed the construction of a petrochemical complex on Lamma Island, proposed by Shell. This proposal was withdrawn in January 1975. Later the same decade, the association opposed the construction of the Lamma Power Station, which was eventually built.

In 2004 the association helped organise a campaign against the plan to tear down Hunghom Peninsula, a brand new housing estate built as Home Ownership Scheme public housing but sold instead to Sun Hung Kai Properties and New World Development following completion. Following a massive backlash and facing a public relations disaster, the developers rescinded the plans and decided to renovate the estate instead.

References

  1. Growing with Hong Kong: The University and Its Graduates : the First 90 Years. Hong Kong University Press. 2002. p. 166. ISBN 9622096131.
  2. Cheung Chi Fai (18 April 2014). "Loopholes in protection of two key wildlife sites: Conservancy Association". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  3. "Organization: The Conservancy Association". /socialenterprise.org.hk. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  4. John Pain Obituary
  5. "Summer Issue, 2016 - Page 57". Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  6. Father Naylor's Official Website, Chapter 9, Environmental Concerns
  7. Fr. Harold Naylor, "Blessings from the heart", "Conservancy Association, Silver Jubilee", page 32
  8. Bernald Fong (1994), Chapter 17, "Out of the shadow: life and times of Ding Lik-Kiu"
  9. "'Stop the rot right now,' says HK's Conservancy Association". South China Morning Post. 3 February 1972. p. 7.
  10. "Refinery door not yet shut on Shell". South China Morning Post. 9 January 1975. p. 1.
  11. Lee, Vivian (11 June 1978). "Lamma–apathy island". South China Morning Post. p. 6.
  12. Lai, Chloe (26 April 2004). "Signature drive to save waterfront estate". South China Morning Post. p. 3.
  13. Connolly, Norma (7 July 2005). "Hunghom Peninsula to be renovated". South China Morning Post. p. 3.

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