{"id":56,"date":"2018-07-30T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T18:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2026-10-16T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T22:14:54","slug":"yamme-leung","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/yamme-leung\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamme Leung"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_pb_fullwidth_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><section class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_0 et_pb_fullwidth_header et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_pb_text_align_center et_pb_section_parallax et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><span class=\"et-pb-parallax-wrapper\"><span class=\"et-pb-parallax-background et-pb-parallax-background-module--divi-fullwidth-header-0\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1226\/2018\/08\/IMG_6493.jpg)\"><\/span><\/span><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_container center\"><div class=\"header-content-container center\"><div class=\"header-content et_flex_module\"><h1 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Yamme Leung<\/h1><div class=\"et_pb_header_button_wrapper\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_scroll\"><\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_justified\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><b>Yamme Leung<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Director of Education, WWF-HK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-395 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1226\/2018\/07\/Logo-Grey-window-gradient-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1226\/2018\/07\/Logo-Grey-window-gradient-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1226\/2018\/07\/Logo-Grey-window-gradient-113x150.png 113w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1226\/2018\/07\/Logo-Grey-window-gradient-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1226\/2018\/07\/Logo-Grey-window-gradient-1080x1440.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/>Yamme Leung joined WWF-Hong Kong in 2001 as an Assistant Education Officer. Now the Director of Education, he oversees the development, implementation and evaluation of school education programs at all WWF centers. Yamme also works closely with the South China Wetland team to develop and monitor education work in South China. He holds a Master of Science in Environmental Management.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_0 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_2 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_0 et_pb_video et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_box\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yamme - Environmental Education and the Future\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9WpYNxPX2ho?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_3 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_justified\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>\"Because we believe that in order to sustain the momentum of environmental education, multiplying is really important, because we cannot do everything. We are just the educators maybe facing the students once in their lifetime, and then that\u2019s it. This lasts for a couple of days, or even a couple of hours. This is really not enough...\" <div class='et-learn-more clearfix'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='heading-more'>Yamme Leung Transcription<span class='et_learnmore_arrow'><span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='learn-more-content'>In order to sustain impact we have to train the teachers up, because they are the ones to face the students for a long time, more than years. So this kind of lifelong learning relationships is the key, another key, for effective environmental education. So, I start to create new programs, okay, to engage teachers to do something in the schools, and also in the regional level. So this is, I will say, this is the third era of my life in the journey. I think it is proceeding.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_3 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_1 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_4 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_5 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_2 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_justified\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>\"We always use the term\u00a0<em>glocal<\/em> \u2014 G-L-O-C-A-L \u2014 to describe our work here in Hong Kong because WWF is an international organization. So we have a good global perspective. So our advantage is we can bring the global perspective to local contexts. So we know a lot about what is happening around the world; the environmental threats...\" <div class='et-learn-more clearfix'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='heading-more'>Yamme Leung Transcription<span class='et_learnmore_arrow'><span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='learn-more-content'>...the conservation issues, but because we are a global organization, we have offices across all the world. We have different national or program or city office. We do work with each other, so we can work together to, sort of, come up with the solutions on the local basis, because people are living locally in their own community, in their own city. We can bring the global knowledge, translate them into locally practical solutions for people to use. So I think this is the major reason why the government, at that time \u2014 1980s \u2014 invited WWF to set up office in Hong Kong and assigned Mai Po Nature Reserve management as a first, most important task, for WWF-Hong Kong to take it. Since then, we keep up our works, apart from managing the areas, we use the area as an education and also training centers for different wetland managers across the region.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_6 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_1 et_pb_video et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_box\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yamme - Understanding Global and Local Context\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oLFC2RbQQtk?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_5 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_7 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_2 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_6 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_8 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_2 et_pb_video et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_box\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yamme - Mai Po Nature Reserve\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AuwxcOua0DQ?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_9 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_3 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_justified\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>\"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, Mai Po is very important regionally because it is a stop-over site for water migratory birds along the East Asian-Australasian flyways. For many bird species, they need to migrate from the North to the South and vice versa because they have to avoid the very cold season in the Northern hemisphere in the winter time, and then they need to...<\/span>\" <div class='et-learn-more clearfix'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='heading-more'>Yamme Leung Transcription<span class='et_learnmore_arrow'><span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='learn-more-content'>...<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> travel South, all the way to Australia and New Zealand to enjoy the warm time at that period.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So along the whole journey, Mai Po is actually situated at the middle of the flyway, so many birds \u2014 I would say up to tens of thousands of migratory birds \u2014 they spend their time at Mai Po during their migration to rest, to feed, and some of them even do the mating behavior there.\u00a0<\/span>So that is why Mai Po is extremely important in the region. And also in Hong Kong, you know that Hong Kong is just a small city, and many areas are highly developed, many high-rise buildings, so this creates the scenario that Mai Po is a very precious, very important remaining site of nature for the wildlife to inhabit and for people to enjoy. That\u2019s why this is a very super important area, from [an] ecological point of view.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_7 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_10 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_3 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_8 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_11 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_4 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_justified\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>\"For myself, I try to be a role model in my family. So, I\u2019ve got two kids. The elder one is six years old and the younger one is just three years old. So, I\u2019m proud to say they don\u2019t use disposable utensils. No plastic bags, no plastic fork, no plastic chopsticks. So when they go out, they bring their own utensils. They bring their own handkerchiefs and box...\" <div class='et-learn-more clearfix'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class='heading-more'>Yamme Leung Transcription<span class='et_learnmore_arrow'><span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='learn-more-content'>...so that they don\u2019t produce any waste when they go out. In my home, I have set up a recycling system. I do create a zone for recycling. So my kids know how to put their items in the correct bins \u2014 plastic, glass, metals, paper. They know all the recycling works in Hong Kong. And also, in their spare time, I do spend time with them to go to Hoi Ha Wan, Mai Po wetland park, to nature to do some hiking. Although, it is hard for them sometimes. For kids, you know, they want to stay in the comfortable area under air conditioning. But I do choose to do it in the time when the weather is better, cooler. I will grasp every opportunity to bring them out to enjoy nature. So when it\u2019s at home, they do watch TV, but I don\u2019t allow them to watch rubbish TV programs. I try to let them watch BBC documentaries, Planet Earth, Life, Planet Ocean these kind of things. And I will have to do, sort of, interpretations when watching the documentaries with them because for some of the contents, they may be quite difficult, complicated for my kids. So I try to simplify the materials, the content, and then translate to them. So this is how I try to become a role model in my home. [I] hope my works and my behavior can positively influence my kids in the future.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_12 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_3 et_pb_video et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_box\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yamme - Personal Philosophy on Environmentalism\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S2QBTvB2oqU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa8JuN-U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/hkg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}