Ho Pui-han makes her way along the fringes of a country path, through a patch of trampled undergrowth and then points to a deep gash at the base of a tree. "You can see where they've cut the wood as a ...

A gap in the dense roadside bushes near Mui Wo's Man Mo Temple opens to a scene of carnage. Large sandy holes and freshly-cut stumps dot the forest ground where as many as 1,000 incense trees, or ...

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He may not be able to resuscitate Hong Kong's long-dead incense trade but entrepreneur Chan Koon-wing is at least hoping to save the tree that gave the city its name centuries ago. Chan returned to ...

Geneticist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree stump that is one of over a dozen illegally felled for the valuable wood ...

HONG KONG — On land deep in Hong Kong’s lush green northern suburbs near the border with mainland China, farmer Koon-wing Chan is working to keep a legendary scent alive in the city known as the ...

Ho said she never expected the incense tree to be such a passion for her. She started her career in environmental protection after a serious illness. She had worked as a Chinese teacher at a middle ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. This narrow columnar evergreen with a manicured look stands out from the ...