Maintaining Hong Kong's 400 miles of hiking trails, one step at a time
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James Griffiths, CNN
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(CNN) — Felix Yeung stops to allow a pair of huge, black buffaloes to lumber past.
He's standing on a hiking trail in Ma On Shan Country Park, a jumble of mountains and lush forest in eastern Hong Kong. Beneath his feet, the path itself, once neatly marked, has blurred, its stones surrounded by scuffed up dirt and trampled vegetation.
That's a problem for Yeung, a country parks officer with the Agricultural, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD), which is responsible for managing Hong Kong's 440 square kilometers (170 sq miles) of public land -- sprawling hills and mountains, beaches, and islands, dotted with trails, barbecue areas, and camping grounds.