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《香港志·自然》自然環境 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Environment
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《香港志·自然》自然資源與生態 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Resources and Ecology
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《香港志·總述 大事記》(公元前 5000 年至 2017 年,共 6,500 多條大事) Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events)
APAHong Kong Chronicles Institute (2020). Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events) (p. 〈頁碼〉). /chronicle/archive/2002#〈條目編號〉
《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口) Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population
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In the early 2000s, the Hong Kong Observatory, based on data collected by windshear radar, began studying windshear phenomena caused by the complex terrain around Lantau Island.
In February 2000, soil samples outside the Cheoy Lee Shipyards were taken and tested by consultants responsible for the environmental impact assessment of the North Lantau development project and the Hong Kong Disneyland theme park.
In April 2000, a development feasibility study for the north shore of Lantau Island completed a statutory strategic environmental assessment covering about 290 hectares.
In 2001, researchers collected banana petiole and leaf samples at Nim Shue Wan Village in Discovery Bay, Lantau, and at Fung Yuen Village in Tai Po, Hong Kong.
Since 2002, small Indian civets have no longer been found on Lantau Island, but they are widely distributed on Hong Kong Island and in the New Territories.
In 2002, the Chief Executive in Council directed the Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation to designate the Southwest Lantau and Soko Islands Marine Parks.
On 26 August 2003, a Government Flying Service helicopter crashed near Lo Fu Tung on Lantau Island, killing two crew members; this was the first time since the service's establishment in 1993 that members died in a crash.
On 21 October 2003, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government completed consultation with the Advisory Council on the Environment and several environmental organisations, and subsequently concluded that siting the bridge landing at the northwest of Lantau Island would cause the least negative environmental impact.
At 4:40 a.m. on 28 November 2004, a hill fire in the Penny's Bay area of Lantau Island was extinguished, burning about 520 hectares of woodland, with no loss of life.
Between 2005 and 2007, to compensate for the 7 hectares of woodland lost at Chek Lap Kok, the authorities planted 6 species of mangroves on an 11-hectare abandoned salt pan at Tai O on Lantau Island.
Siu A Chau is located to the southwest of Lantau Island, is uninhabited, and its low-level radioactive waste storage facility was completed and commissioned in July 2005.
On 1 August 2005, the MTR Disneyland Resort Line officially opened, with a total length of 3.5 kilometres and two stations, Sunny Bay Station and Disneyland Resort Station.
Since early 2006, the Hong Kong Observatory has operated two continuous satellite positioning observation stations, located at Tate's Cairn and at the tidal station at Shek Pik on Lantau Island.
On 19 November 2007, the Hong Kong Archaeological Research Office began a two-month archaeological excavation at the Luk Keng Village site on Lantau Island, during which remains from the Bronze Age and the Tang dynasty were found.
Bronze-casting stone moulds found in Hong Kong archaeological discoveries coexisted with geometric stamped pottery in strata of the Xia and Shang periods, proving that local bronze-casting technology already existed at that time.
A landslide occurred near the North Lantau Highway, with a volume of collapsed material between 5 and 400 cubic metres; rocks and soil blocked drainage channels, causing extensive flooding on the road surface there, and the key route to Hong Kong International Airport was blocked for about 16 hours.
Western Lantau recorded 384 millimetres of rainfall over a four-hour period; about 35 landslides were also recorded on natural hillsides near the North Lantau Highway.
On 7 June 2008, torrential rain caused severe flooding on the North Lantau Highway and triggered landslides, completely paralysing road traffic between the urban area and the airport.
In the early morning of 7 June 2008, heavy rain affected Lantau Island, causing landslides at multiple locations and triggering debris flows in Tung Chung, Tai O, Keung Shan and Sham Wat.
In 2010, the government's consultation with local residents met with strong opposition, and the Shui Hau Sand Flat conservation plan was eventually shelved.
In November 2011, the Department of Anthropology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong conducted a one-month survey and excavation at San Tau and Tin Sam on Lantau Island.
In November 2011, an archaeological team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong began excavation at San Tau and Tin Sam on Lantau Island, and initially identified a total of 16 tombs dating from the mid-to-late Tang dynasty.
The Department of Anthropology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong conducted a survey on Lantau Island and preliminarily identified sixteen tomb pits from the mid-to-late Tang dynasty.
Monitoring reports for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge project from 2012 to 2017 showed a declining trend in the use of the waters northeast of Lantau by Chinese white dolphins.
During 2012 and 2013, gorgonians that had to be relocated due to the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge were moved to Yam Tsai Wan in northeast Lantau.
On 25 July 2012, nearly 200 bags of polypropylene pellets of unknown origin washed up on Sam Pak Wan beach and were discovered by residents of Discovery Bay on Lantau Island.
Discovery Bay residents, together with volunteers from the local environmental group DB Green and the Hong Kong branch of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, voluntarily took part in cleaning up polypropylene pellets.
At 4:35 pm on 5 December 2013, the Fire Services Department received a report of a hill fire near Penny's Bay on Lantau Island, while the Red Fire Danger Warning was in effect.
The hill fire at Penny's Bay on Lantau was declared extinguished by the Fire Services at around 1 pm on 7 December 2013, with over 300 hectares of woodland burned and no casualties.
In 2014, the SAR Government announced that the Soko Islands Marine Park and the Southwest Lantau Marine Park were both included in the designation plan.
On 15 January 2014, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced the establishment of the Lantau Development Advisory Committee and confirmed that its membership list had been finalised.
The report stated that after the completion of the third runway, aircraft noise would shift northwards to improve noise in Tung Chung and North Lantau, while the south runway would remain on standby from 11 pm to 6:59 am.
Researchers including Jiao Jiao Jiao and Kwong Hiu Tung published papers in 2015 and 2016 on the vertical concentration distribution of major ions in offshore boreholes south of Lantau Island.
A saprophytic herb named Thismia hongkongensis was formally published as a new species in 2015, classified under the family Burmanniaceae, and found in the New Territories and Lantau.
In 2015, the New Territories village situation table listed villages under the Lantau South Rural Committee, including Tai Long, Tai A Chau and Siu A Chau.
In 2016, works on the Hong Kong International Airport Three-Runway System began, with reclamation carried out in the waters north of Lantau Island, causing the loss of 672 hectares of seabed.
This plan advocates that visitors reduce the ecological impact of activities such as clam digging at Shui Hau, and urges the authorities to designate certain areas of Shui Hau Wan as a marine conservation area.
In 2016, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region built a power generation facility operating on solar photovoltaic technology within the open area of the Siu Ho Wan Sewage Treatment Works on Lantau Island.
Since 2016, the Environment and Conservation Fund has provided funding to WWF-Hong Kong to implement a community-based conservation project at Shui Hau on Lantau Island.
Under this programme, Food Angel collects surplus food from restaurants at the airport and on Lantau Island and turns it into meals for distribution to people in need.
In 2017, the number of monitoring stations on Lantau Island increased to eight, with five on Mui Wo River and three on Tung Chung River; six had excellent water quality and two good.
In 2017, about 40% of Hong Kong's total agricultural land was wet-farmed agricultural land, mainly distributed in the New Territories and Lantau Island.
Green Sense pointed out on 18 April 2017 that yellow muddy water appeared in the sea near the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge artificial island, and speculated that the waters north of Lantau Island might be polluted.
The "Sustainable Lantau Blueprint" was published by the SAR Government in June 2017, with the planning principle of "development in the north, conservation in the south": North Lantau focuses on economic and housing development, while South Lantau focuses on conservation and leisure and recreation.
As of 1 July 2017, the Islands District contained nature conservation areas including the South Lantau Country Park, the North Lantau Country Park, and the Southwest Lantau Marine Park.
In August 2017, affected by storm surges, flooding occurred in eastern Hong Kong Island, Lantau and Yuen Long, with vehicles in the basement car park of Heng Fa Chuen submerged.
The first phase of the Organic Resources Recovery Centre is located at Siu Ho Wan, North Lantau, and is expected to be completed and put into operation in 2018, capable of processing up to 200 tonnes of food waste per day and generating about 14 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.