Flora Conservation Department (FLO) focuses on maintaining KFBG’s public display areas, conserving native plants and restoring degraded forests in Hong Kong and the wider Indo-Burma region. Our work spans routine garden management and arboriculture, plant surveys and species inventory, cutting edge conservation projects that tackle pressing global problems such as wildlife trade, and the reintroduction of rare native species back into the wild. Our team includes ecologists, geneticists, arborists, horticulturists, educators and gardeners. Together we manage five plant nurseries, a herbarium, a genetic laboratory, a micropropagation laboratory, gardens and a nature reserve to support our wide variety of conservation projects.

On-site projects:

• Incense Tree
• Red-listing Hong Kong Orchids
• Ecology and Conservation of Bulbophyllum bicolor in Hong Kong
• Prioritising Orchids for Conservation Based on Phylogenetic History and Extinction Risk
• Dynamics of Reintroduced Tropical Orchids
• Documenting Hong Kong’s Wild Plant Diversity
• Forest Dynamic Plot
• Experimental Forest Restoration Plots
• Experimental Forest Enhancement Plots
• Pangolin Forensics
• Shark Fin Trade
• Screening of Wildlife Products Sold in Hong Kong

Off-site projects:

• Taxonomy and Ecology of Indo-Burma Orchids and Other Plants
• Ecology and Conservation of Phalaenopsis pulcherrima in Hainan
• Developing an Orchid Conservation Strategy for Lao PDR
• Confronting the Wild Orchid Trade in the Indo-Burma Region

❯ History Timeline of Flora Conservation Department