HK‧Love‧Trees Prize Presentation Ceremony cum Exhibition

HK‧Love‧Trees programme co-organized by NWS Charities Foundation and Green Power, is the first large-scale and sustainable tree conservation project in Hong Kong. A prize presentation ceremony was held at New World Centre on 24 May 2008, in which the prizes for bus body design, writing and photo competitions were presented, while a two-week exhibition featuring the winning entries was launched.

Generating marvellous responses in the three competitions, the programme aroused public awareness of the importance of trees to the local community and related conservation issues; attracted over 7,200 members of the public, secondary and primary school students to participate. All winning entries were published in an anthology entitled "Memories Under Banyan Trees", which will be distributed free-of-charge to all local secondary schools and public libraries, so that more people can share the stories about Banyan trees and Hong Kong people.

"Memories Under Banyan Tree" Writing Competition received about 1,500 entries

Junior Group (F.1 to F.3)

"Our Banyan Tree" Photo Competition received about 1,500 entries

Champion First Runner-up Second Runner-up Enjoying Life Attachment Under the Banyan To Chun Yin (F.6) Beacon College Iu Kok Ching (F.3) Kiangsu-Chekiang College Iu Chun Yip Lawrence (F.6) Kiangsu-Chekiang College

Champion First Runner-up Second Runner-up Tree and Shadow Under the tree Warfare under the Tree Ip Ka Wing Jay Lee Sai Ho Cheng Sai Man

A walk to appreciate and learn more about trees

HK‧Love‧Trees designed three tree trails at Victoria Park, Kowloon Park and Tuen Mun Park, where tree walks were organized for about 70 volunteers in April and May 2008. Some of the participating volunteers even became tour guides for school teachers on the tree walks.

To facilitate effective environmental education, a Journey of Trees Teachers' Guidebook was published with a CD-Rom to introduce readers to the 42 tree species of the three tree trails as well as the skills in leading tree-mapping activities.

HK‧Love‧Trees launches 10 "Moving banyan" buses across Hong Kong

"Moving Banyan Tree" Bus Body Design Competition received overwhelming response with more than 4,200 entries. On the theme of the relationship between banyan trees and Hong Kong people, primary pupils demonstrated their talents through creative bus body design. The winning entries of the two categories of Junior Group (Primary 1-3) and Senior Group (Primary 4-6) were displayed on 10 "Moving banyan" buses running across Hong Kong, in order to raise public awareness of banyan tree conservation and bring Hong Kong a breath of green air.

With relevance to the subject, overall appearance and creativity as the judging criteria, the judges highly rated the standards of the entries in general. The champion of the Senior Group was able to clearly demonstrate the theme "banyan trees conservation", while the winning design of Junior Group is distinguished by a childlike freshness as well as creativity.

Winning entries of the Junior Group			Winning entries of the Senior Group
Champion	First Runner-up	Second Runner-up	Champion	First Runner-up	Second Runner-up

Lam Tsuen Wishing Tree Elected "Banyan Tree of Hong Kong People"

"Banyan Tree of Hong Kong People" election, the first event under the "HK‧ Love‧ Trees" s voting results was announced at a press conference held on 12 January 2008. Over one million people has casted votes since the "Banyan Tree of Hong Kong People" election commenced in September 2007, among which Lam Tsuen Wishing Tree in Tai Po, the most popular one, received a total of 2,286 votes. The Yuen Long Kam Tim Tree House and Chinese Banyans along Nathan Road respectively ranked second and third in the vote.