Have you ever wondered how bees create perfect hexagon shapes while constructing their honeycomb nests? After pondering this question while staring at a piece of perfectly formed honeycomb from a wil...
The baby bird season has arrived and the KFBG Wild Animal Rescue Centre is experiencing daily deliveries of rescued nestlings. Thanks to the rapid call out responses of the SPCA and their dedicated t...
Wild, Threatened, Farmed: Hong Kong’s Invisible Pets│Wildlife Trade Report
24 May 2022 | Animal Stories
24 May 2022 | Animal Stories
This is a new wildlife trade report published by ADM Capital Foundation Wild, Threatened, Farmed: Hong Kong's Invisible Pets sheds light on the scale and nature of the city's exotic pet trade, iden...
Individual identification is a very powerful but challenging approach in zoological research. Characteristics such as the noseprint in dogs, footprint of giant pandas, face of monkeys, markings on le...
Behind the Scenes: Updating the Checklist of the Birds of Hainan Island
11 March 2022 | China Eco Tales
11 March 2022 | China Eco Tales
As one of the authors of the 2021 paper An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Hainan Island, China”, I certainly did not make the greatest contribution, but I surely learnt a great deal along...
Young nestling Collared Scops Owls are loveable birds, that often arrive from rescue looking like white fluff balls and grow up resembling a piece of tree bark with a pair of big eyes. These owls ar...
It is the eleventh World Pangolin Day today! Unfortunately, this mysterious creature is still under severe threat over most of its native range and several of the 8 species are close to extinction in...
DRUM-ROLL… Kickstarting 2022 with a newly described orchid, Pankaj's pot-belly orchid, named in honour of one of KFBG's botanists. A newly discovered rock-dwelling orchid native to southern Vi...
We have an exciting travel story to share: A rescued Black-faced Spoonbill with leg ring number A49” returned to Hong Kong from South Korea. It was previously treated in our Wild Animal Rescue ...
Most visitors arrive at KFBG by taking the 64K bus from Tai Po. The route has numerous stops and can be a lengthy bus ride. While you may be used to looking down on your phone, watching outside the w...