PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jim, C.Y.
TI  - Transplanting Two Champion Specimens of Mature Chinese Banyans
AID  - 10.48044/jauf.1995.047
DP  - 1995 Nov 01
TA  - Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF)
PG  - 289--295
VI  - 21
IP  - 6
4099  - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/21/6/289.short
4100  - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/21/6/289.full
SO  - JOA1995 Nov 01; 21
AB  - Recent expansion of a urban-situated racecourse in Hong Kong proposed felling two champion specimens of mature Chinese Banyans (Ficus microcarpa). In response to public outcry, they were transplanted at great cost to a nearby site. The arboricultural-cum-engineering measures used to move the large trees, an unprecedented operation locally, are explained. The hydraulic approach conveying the trees held in 8 m diameter steel containers running on rails was workable but expensive. The impacts on the trees, and implications on the community’s attitude towards trees and their welfare, are discussed.