HKFYG Services June 2021∣Youth Hong Kong
Iconic plogging special care for country parks
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logging: a combination of picking up litter and jogging. As a workout, it provides a balanced activity for your body. For the environment, it offers a chance of recovery for garbage-strewn hiking trails.
With support from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, HKFYG launched the HKFYG Jockey Club Youth Sports Development Project in September 2020. Since then, it has been taking groups of up to 100 12-35-year-olds out into the countryside to go plogging. The activity involves a wide variety of physical movements: bending, lifting and stretching combined with the main actions of running, hiking or walking while picking up litter.
So far, over 100 plogging volunteers have been trained to help on the project which has included trails in Lion Rock, High West and Tai Cham Koi country parks. There will be a total of 48 trained teams doing four cleaning trips each. Members from each team clean up while jogging according to their planned route, and the type and quantity of the picked up rubbish is be recorded.
Training includes: Level 1 MOUNTAIN CRAFT TRAINING
§ Knowledge of mountaineering in Hong Kong § Mountain safety § Countryside Code and care for the environment
Plus LEAVE NO TRACE (LNT) awareness workshops and online environmental education lectures Leaving rocks, plants and other natural objects exactly as you find them is the core principle of LNT.
§ Environmental awareness in field activities
Seven principles of LNT
§ Knowledge and choice of hiking equipment and clothing
§ Plan and prepare ahead
§ Journey planning
§ Travel and camp on durable surfaces
§ Map reading
§ Dispose of waste properly
§ Compass use
§ Leave what you find where you found it – except litter
§ Hiking skills
§ Minimize campfire impacts
§ Food
§ Respect wildlife § Be considerate of other visitors
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