Hong Kong: Drones aid environmental protection
The Environmental Protection Department’s drone team has been instrumental in the department’s success in protecting our habitat.
Established at the end of last year, the drone team mainly assists the department in dealing with two aspects of its environmental protection work, including combatting illegal landfilling works and investigating ecological disturbances.
It has contributed significantly to the department’s success in its enforcement actions. People involved in two illegal landfilling cases detected by the team have been convicted.
Facilitating enforcement
The department’s Environmental Protection Officer Thomas Wong pointed out that it was challenging to combat these illegal landfilling works in the past because the department had to visit the sites physically.