The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) will optimise the green spaces in a total of 32 sites in Macau, including the Estrada Flor de Lótus Triangle Garden and Flora Garden, as many of the projects have been affected by road traffic and roadworks, Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council deputy convener Choi Seng Hong said yesterday.
Choi made the remarks during a press conference after a regular closed-door meeting at the Islands District Public Services Centre in Seac Pai Van yesterday, with the attendance of IAM officials.
Choi quoted the IAM officials as saying that the plants in the green spaces have not be growing as well as the bureau had expected, and the bureau will therefore carry out various ways to boost plants’ growth, such as by introducing different kinds of plants suited to different environments.
Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council member Wong Leong Kuan quoted the IAM officials as saying that the bureau’s two phases of hill and woodland restoration work since 2018 have achieved sustainable results in biodiversity.
The bureau has divided its hills and woodland ecology repair plan into two phases, with its first phase from 2018 to 2020, with the aim of repairing serious damage caused in recent years by several super typhoons.
Wong quoted the IAM officials as saying that the bureau’s second phase of hills and woodland repair work started in 2021 and was estimated to be completed in 2024, adding that the second phase is being carried out in Coloane, Guia Hill, and Big Taipa Hill, with a total of 120 hectares of hills and woodland areas. Wong said that the bureau was striving to finish planting 120,000 seedlings by 2024.
Meanwhile, council member Si Lai Kuan said before the closed-door meeting that the government’s first-phase revitalisation of Coloane’s Lai Chi Vun shipyards area has so far only attracted limited foot traffic. She quoted tour guides as saying that the area lacked suitable tourist attractions, and that it was also inconvenient to park tour coaches there.
Si suggested that the government come up with follow-up plans for the idle land around the area, add more commercial elements and improve its transport facilities.
Choi Seng Hong (right), deputy convener of the government-appointed Taipa and Coloane Community Service Consultative Council, and committee member Wong Leong Kuan pose during yesterdays’ press briefing after the council’s closed-door meeting with Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) officials at the Islands District Public Services Centre in Seac Pai Van yesterday. – Photo courtesy of TDM
