‘The Beauty of Our Hills Is Being Sacrificed’: Afforestation, Forestry and Colonial Environmentalism in British Hong Kong

IF 0.8 3区 历史学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI:10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903576
Vincent Ho, N. Ho
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This article examines the afforestation and tree protection efforts in Hong Kong during its colonial period from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Initially, the afforestation department adopted objectives in the 1870s purely for hygienic and urban planning purposes. Yet, with the support of the British Empire’s botanical network, the department successfully transformed Hong Kong Island into a verdant city by the turn of the twentieth century despite facing challenges. However, protecting afforested areas posed difficulties for the department as the local Chinese continuously damaged the trees in exchange for firewood, which was vital to their everyday life. In addition to this, the article also analyses the disputes that arose due to differing views on the usage of trees among the European community and the government in 1904–1905. These challenges forced the latter to abandon its profit-driven tree felling policy and became Hong Kong’s first tree conservation campaign.
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我们山丘的美丽正在被牺牲":英属香港的植树造林、林业和殖民地环保主义
本文探讨香港在十九世纪末至二十世纪初殖民地时期的植树造林和树木保护工作。最初,植树造林部门在十九世纪七十年代采取的目标纯粹是为了卫生和城市规划目的。然而,在大英帝国植物网络的支持下,尽管面临挑战,植树造林部门还是在二十世纪之交成功地将香港岛变成了一个绿意盎然的城市。然而,保护植树造林区给该部门带来了困难,因为当地华人不断破坏树木以换取柴火,而柴火对他们的日常生活至关重要。除此以外,文章还分析了 1904-1905 年欧洲社会与政府之间因对树木用途的不同看法而产生的争议。这些挑战迫使政府放弃以营利为目的的砍伐树木政策,成为香港第一个树木保育运动。
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期刊介绍: Environment and History is an interdisciplinary journal which aims to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together, with the deliberate intention of constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems. Articles appearing in Environment and History are abstracted and indexed in America: History and Life, British Humanities Index, CAB Abstracts, Environment Abstracts, Environmental Policy Abstracts, Forestry Abstracts, Geo Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, History Journals Guide, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Landscape Research Extra, Referativnyi Zhurnal, Rural Sociology Abstracts, Social Sciences in Forestry and World Agricultural Economics.
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