GE020 HERITAGE 07 CONSERVATION for Hong Kong by Sami Hasan CBCC CIHE
Discussing Heritage INTANGIBLE HERITAGE BUILT HERITAGE CULTURAL HERITAGE LIVING CULTURE NATURAL HERITAGE
Discussing Heritage INTANGIBLE HERITAGE BUILT HERITAGE CULTURAL HERITAGE LIVING CULTURE NATURAL HERITAGE
7 [ HONG KONG ] NATURAL HERITAGE A B CONTEXT 01 DEFINITION & GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 02 03 Between Built & Natural Defining Natural Heritage Examples C HONG KONG SCENARIO 04 05 06 Context Inventory & Approaches Issues
A CONTEXT
00 Preamble
What is NATURE?
What is NATURE? What is HERITAGE?
Heritage Building Heritage Intangible Cultural Heritage That Man Built That Man Practice
Heritage Building Heritage Intangible Cultural Heritage Natural Heritage How Men relate themselves here? That Man Built That Man Practice
Heritage // Culture Nature (Natural Heritage) Can Culture, (and so heritage) be related to Nature? Your thoughts: Discussion 11.1 @Moodle http://moodle.cihe.edu.hk/moodle/mod/quiz/view.php?id=20056
01 Between Built & Natural
Heritage Building Heritage Intangible Cultural Heritage Natural Heritage That Man Built That Man Practice
Nature Building Heritage Intangible Cultural Heritage Un-built Built Unaltered System System Interfered by Man
Un-built Man Interfered / Built Aspect/ Culture NATURAL LANDSCAPE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Steppe landscape
Planes Plateau Woodland Coastal River Basins The Blackfoot, the Blood and the Peigan Salish The Lillooet Haida the Hare https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=1uiwh8auxwm
NATURAL LANDSCAPE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE Provides IDENTITY Defines WAY of LIFE Influences WORLDVIEW
NATURAL LANDSCAPE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE Provides IDENTITY Defines WAY of LIFE Influences WORLDVIEW Ip, Hing-fong (1995). An historical geography of the walled villages of Hong Kong. M.Phil Thesis. HKU: Hong Kong
SURVIVAL/ Existence Environment Ecosystem Biosphere NATURE and its heritage CULTURAL Contribution Provides IDENTITY Defines WAY of LIFE Influences WORLDVIEW External Internal
B DEFINITION GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
03 Defining Natural Heritage
Natural Heritage Biodiversity Ecosystem Geo-diversity Flora & Fauna Geological formation UNESCO The World Heritage Centre (WHC) 1992 The World Heritage Committee The World Heritage Site/ Item
Natural Heritage ASSESSMENT The World Heritage Site/ Item IUCN WHC Article 2, W H Convention + elaborated in World Heritage Operational Guidelines specific criteria + conditions assess Outstanding Universal Value(s) of prospective World Natural Heritage properties
Natural Heritage ASSESSMENT The World Heritage Site/ Item IUCN WHC The United Nations Foundation (UNF) + the major international conservation NGOs like Conservation International (CI), Fauna and Flora International (FFI), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Natural Heritage SCOPE/ CRITERIA WHC The World Heritage Committee Assess and Recognises Continually improve World Heritage site management capacities Counter threats to World Heritage in Danger sites Complete the World Heritage List Apply the Ecosystem Approach Link up with the international biodiversity conservation agenda Mainstream the Convention and convey the World Heritage message
Natural Heritage PURPOSE STRATEGY UNESCO WHC s Natural Heritage Strategy Biodiversity Approach Ecosystem Approach Programme of Work on Protected Areas World Heritage Marine Programme
04 Examples
Natural Heritage Example MANGROVE GREAT BARRIER REEF etc. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/
Natural Heritage GREAT BARRIER REEF http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/154 world s largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc
APPROACHES of CONSERVATION Example
C HONG KONG SCENARIO
05 Context
HONG KONG TOPOGRAPHIC
HONG KONG CLIMATIC
HONG KONG ECOSYSTEM
HONG KONG BIODIVERSITY/ FLORA-FAUNA
INVENTORY
REMARKABLE EXAMPLES Wetlands Rock Formation Coral NATURAL TREASURES vs CONSERVATION Harbour
Rocks Harbour
Yan Chau Tong Marine Park happy result of violent volcanic eruptions some 180 million years ago
Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park a sheltered bay that s famous for its coral collection. You might be able to spot more than 60 species of hard coral just from a clear spot on the surface, or dive down further to happen upon colorful soft coral and more than 120 species of fish.
REMARKABLE EXAMPLES Wetlands Rock Formation Coral Wetland Park 60 hectares of wetland reserve with specially designed habitats for its water-bird species.
REMARKABLE EXAMPLES Wetlands Rock Formation Coral Wetland Park 60 hectares of wetland reserve with specially designed habitats for its water-bird species.
White Dolphin
06 Issues/ Conflicts/ Constrains
RECLAMATION
LEAST RESPONSE to NATURAL SETTINGS
Protection Integrity Protection for Hong Kong's built and natural heritage is not mutually exclusive Michael Lau says it would set a bad precedent to preserve one at the expense of the other, as the government is proposing to do to save a historic building at 23 Coombe Road http://www.scmp.com/comment/insightopinion/article/1838590/protection-hongkongs-built-and-natural-heritage-not
LIGHT POLLUTION vs ECOSYSTEM http://www.scmp.com/comment/insightopinion/article/1838590/protection-hongkongs-built-and-natural-heritage-not
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