Lantau Conservation Fund 2024-2025 authorizes 12 tasks
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The South Development and Sustainable Lantau Office (SSLO) of the Civil Engineering and Development Department revealed today (October 27) that 12 tasks were authorized in the 2024-2025 round of the Lantau Conservation Fund (LCF), including an overall quantity of about $32 million.
The accepted jobs consist of one preservation management arrangement job in Tai O, 9 research study jobs and 2 education and engagement jobs, covering styles such as the remodelling of a Tai O standard structure, history of Tai O advancement, history of Yam O Wan log storage market, history of the Chinese individuals’s War of Resistance versus Japanese Aggression on Lantau Island, and ecology of uncommon animals and plants on Lantau Island.
The LCF intends to promote preservation and associated jobs on Lantau, with a view to raising neighborhood awareness about preservation of Lantau and engaging the neighborhood to put preservation into practice, thus promoting a sustainable quality living environment. The $1 billion LCF supplies financial backing to qualified organisations and post-secondary education organizations to perform research study and education and engagement tasks, or work together with regional neighborhoods and landowners to perform preservation and associated jobs on Lantau; in addition to supporting small regional enhancement works for preservation. An overall of 59 jobs of over $164 million have actually been authorized because the creation of the LCF in 2020.
The LCF will accept a brand-new round of applications at the end of this year. For details about the LCF, the outcomes of the applications, the occasion calendar and information of the accepted jobs, and the invite for the brand-new round of applications, please go to the LCF’s site (www.lcf.gov.hk/) and the Sustainable Lantau Facebook page (www.facebook.com/lantauhk/), or call 2153 2739.