Longhushan Chinese herbal medicine garden in West District was sentenced to death, herbal medicines worth about $500,000 were destroyed

At 3:00 p.m., the police received a report from the staff at the site, saying that the herbs planted on the site were suspected to have been destroyed.

Police arrived at the scene.

After preliminary investigation, it was found that the herbal medicine on the site was destroyed. The reporter estimated that the value was about 500,000 yuan. The loss and area are still being counted.

The case was temporarily classified as criminal damage, and the case was handed over to the Fifth Division of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Western District Police District for follow-up. No one has been arrested so far.

A police investigation found that about 2,000 square meters of herbal medicine on the site had been destroyed.

Looking through the information, after the completion of the Longhushan Country Park in 1998, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department cooperated with the District Council, the University of Hong Kong and the non-governmental organization Longhushan Morning Friends Association to build the Longhushan Chinese herbal medicine garden, which is in charge of the Longhushan Morning Friends Association Manage and plant more than 100 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine in the field, and provide the public and students to visit.

Mr. He, secretary of the Longhushan Morning Sports Friends Association, said that he received a notification from the morning traveler yesterday that a suspicious person was digging in the Chinese herbal medicine garden. He inspected the site and found that the damage was quite serious, including some herbs were dug up and some potted plants were inside. Plants were also missing and suspected to be stolen. It is estimated that more than 60% of the area was affected, involving about 200 to 300 kinds of herbal medicines. The actual number and types still need to be counted.

Mr. Ho said that because the Chinese herbal medicine garden is open for people to visit, herbs have been stolen from time to time in the past, but it has never been as serious as this time. Research methods to remind hikers to cherish plants.

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