Nature
Tung Chung is surrounded by two large country parks, cover an area of Lantau Island as large as Hong Kong Island: The Lantau North and Lantau South Country Parks.
The presence of mangroves and freshwater streams in Tung Chung provides excellent ecologically valuable habitats for freshwater fish species, dragonflies and rare amphibians.
However, the reclamation and other civil engineering works in Tung Chung has heavily damaged these habitats, and produced irreversible damage to native wildlife and the surrounding environment.
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