A week or two ago a bunch of informational signs were planted on metal pillars all around Lamma.
Several departments (Lands, Home Affairs, Tourism) are named on them, but also HK Electric, so they probably paid for them.
While some are genuinely interesting, pointing out various plants in the vicinity, others are pretty ironic, celebrating things that other departments (or the same departments) are complicit in destroying.

The Tai Peng sign for instance in front of possibly the only remaining inhabited old stone village house in Tai Peng. Sooner or later it will be knocked down, and the government won't lift a finger to preserve it.

The sign at the Yung Shue Long bridge is even better. It's about "habitats", and how abandoned farmland is the "perfect hiding place for small birds".

And right behind that you see the fence that conceals the pile of construction waste and the concrete slab that covers the former farmland and lily pond, and the stream that the Drainage Dept turned into a nullah, then allowed a "property owner" (i.e., holding an agricultural lease) to cover and run through a pipe. Habitat has zero priority. And we human inhabitants have just as little say as the birds and frogs in what happens to our environment.

Might have been an idea to have proofread the text as well before making all these signs, looks like they just pasted the Chinese into Google translate.

Yes, these went up all along the North Lamma eco-tour "Hong Kong Greenhouse" just recently. These tours are organised by the Conservancy Association and part of the Green Lamma Green campaign whicu was formerly mostly concerned with tree planting. All financed by HK Electric.

The tours are run quite frequently all over Lamma and in Cantonese only so far, guided by mostly Lammaite volunteer eco-guides. I've taken some of these tours and did Lamma-zine stories about them, including the above one via Tai Peng and Pak Kok. Highly recommended, if you can understand Cantonese. I've volunteered years ago to be trained as a volunteer to guide some English eco-tours, but so far no interest from their side. Conservancy Association is a great local HK NGO, even most of their website is Chin. only.

For the Lamma-based eco-tour details, click on Eco-Tour Map in the left column on the home page of this site.

CA was probably not aware at the ironic locations of some of their signs, after going trough the long approval processes they probably had to go through to get all the permissions to put them up all over Lamma. I could ask them....

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One more sign on the eco-tour route, solving the problem of who's really "The Power behind Lamma".

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These signs are just a show. Lamma is like it is just by coincidence; not by any preservation effort by the Govt.

One of the information signs on the way from Pak Kok to Tai Peng says: : ”Illegal logging of the incense tree”. The place is where there was earlier a police tape indicating the offence scene.

Very soon we may expect a sign explaining: “This is the area where there was a bush and a forest”.

You mean this sign halfway up Heart Attack Hill, just besides a vandalised tree? I walk or bike past it quite often and I'm glad to live close to a designated eco-route.

But you're right, it's just a "green" campaign by the Conservation Association and those pretty signs are paid for by HK Electric, their sponsor. But their free Lamma eco-tours at least help to increase awareness amongst locals and all the families and nature lovers from all over HK walking these tours learn a lot from the very knowledgeable and well-trained volunteer eco-guides.

The signs tell all Lamma visitors a bit more about our nature, including the challenges it faces, so I wouldn't knock them too much. There are dozens of them all over North and South Lamma, even in quite remote locations and I like stopping and reading them. A lot better than no info at all.

As the local powers-that-be and politicians don't have anything comparable to offer to tourists, besides building human and dog toilets, pavilions and sitting-out areas all over the island, I welcome these signs. The locations might be a bit unfortunate sometimes, but the visitors reading them wouldn't know about the history of the locations.

The Lamma Eco-Tour map is still the very best free tourist map of Lamma, even though it's a bit hard to find in print (budget ran out after the initial print run). Online version.

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The Govt. and Lamma Council is scoring green image just for nothing. Put an informational board next to a rubbished beach or former paddy field and the public thinks you care.
I learned that HK Electric did a lot for the environment and the Plant is tidy and not much polluting. Are the informational boards a deliberate green wash campaign or just a coincidence from the noble and enthusiastic action by The Conservation Association, I do not know. I would prefer to see some real action or environmental decisions instead of the boards.

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Just "Acknowledgments" which means that they simply permitted these boards to be set up privately, but didn't do anything in their creation or set up. But yes, it looks like greenwashing.

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