An eco-unfriendly, so-called development project is being undertaken by award-winning developer Hong Kong Resort Co, in what is proclaimed to be Hong Kong's first green town - Discovery Bay ("Residents ready to fight DB developer", September 9).
Because of this project a popular hiking and mountain bike trail, which is well known by the local and international biking and hiking communities, has been blocked off and effectively destroyed. Known by local residents as the Trappist Monastery trail, it starts near the top of the Discovery Valley Road, skirts the outline of the golf course and merges into the concrete footpath built by the Trappist Haven Monastery to Mui Wo.
About a month ago, this trail was suddenly blocked by large concrete boulders at different locations about half a kilometre from the trail head.
These boulders embrace an area about the size of a football playground and completely block the footpath.
Within this area, trees have been cut down, soil dug up by bulldozers and large swathes of green hillside destroyed.
No warning notices were put up to let hikers know what was going on, despite the possible associated dangers if they tried to walk the trail.