As a way to celebrate Earth Day, the PTA organised The 2nd Annual Biodiversity Walk’n’Talk with Sharne McMillan from Masarang HK in Aberdeen Country Park. She lead parents, students, and teachers in a morning and afternoon walk around Aberdeen Reservoir.
Sharne is an ecologist, and is currently completing her PhD research investigating the ecology and conservation of Eurasian Otter. She began the event with a brief description of the ecosystems in Hong Kong and the diversity of species Hong Kong supports. We were surprised to learn about the leopard cat, aka “Hong Kong’s Tiger” and the wide variety of birds. We learned it is important to protect the biodiversity of our environment to benefit the ecology of the plants and animals, as well as our own wellbeing.
As a group we took a walk around the reservoir, ticking off our scavenger hunt checklist. We saw different flowers, plants, spiders, butterflies, ferns, and bugs We tracked the evidence of wild boars digging for food. We even spotted a large lizard type animal. What a zoo!
The focus of Earth Day 2018 is ending plastic pollution. Unfortunately we saw some Hong Kongers had been very irresponsible and had left plastic waste in our country park. We can work together as a community to reduce our use of single use plastics. Let’s make everyday Earth Day!
Contributed by Ms. Melisa Baldwick, CAS Coordinator (PYP)
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