Research and Consultancy

With the support from The Swire Group Charitable Trust, we are so honoured to kick start a new project “Nurture via Nature: Hong Kong Nature Connectedness and Outdoor Environmental Education”! The project will include the FIRST Hong Kong territory-wide baseline survey for “children nature connectedness” and “outdoor environmental education in primary school”. Together with a series of work on publicity and advocacy, different stakeholders in the society would get an insight into the significance of connecting with nature, as well as drive the development of outdoor environmental education as a whole for the sake of the well-being of Hong Kong citizens, especially in children.

With the support from The Swire Group Charitable Trust, we are so honoured to kick start a new project “Nurture via Nature: Hong Kong Nature Connectedness and Outdoor Environmental Education”! The project will include the FIRST Hong Kong territory-wide baseline survey for “children nature connectedness” and “outdoor environmental education in primary school”, along with a series of work on publicity and advocacy.

Children are also facing the same problem. The book Last Child in the Woods published in 2008, introduced the concept of "Nature-deficit Disorder," which describes how people are becoming disconnected from the natural world. This disorder can cause children to become indifferent to the environment, leading to attention problems, depression and other mental disorders, as well as increasing the risk of certain physical problems, such as myopia and obesity.

To this end, we launched the Pledge “Engage Nature for 5” during July 2023 to May 2024. We encouraged everyone to seek out the majesty of nature using the methods we suggest, and to bask in the benefits of nature.

Furthermore, to encourage more people to connect with nature, we launched the “Nature & Joy” Pledge from October 2024 to May 2025, alongside promoting the "Nature Challenge" activity. Participants simply need to sign the Pledge, and share their stories with nature on social media, and they may have a chance to get exquisite pins designed by us.

OWLHK is honoured to be one of the supporting organizations. We are going to conduct a three-year ecological baseline surveys and monitoring. It would be leveraged in the development of Augmented Reality applications, designed by CUHK and HKUST. Yim Tin Tsai’s biodiversity would be showcased thoroughly.

OWLHK is honoured to work together with Dr. Michael Lau, a well-known ecologist in Hong Kong, to conduct a three-year ecological monitoring and survey for these two villages. In due course, the surveys shall provide baseline information for the organizer to formulate long-term sustainable rural conservation plan.

AFCD’s PEP aims at enhancing ecological value of plantation. OWLHK cooperates with the Green Earth and the Mushroom Initiative to conduct survey and monitoring programme and act as consultant and leading education activities for their PEP.

Commissioned by the Campus Sustainability Office, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, OWLHK conducted ecological survey for birds, butterflies and mammals in PolyU campus in 2017. OWLHK are eager to provide ecological survey and consultancy services for various organizations, please feel free to contact us for enquiry.