22 April 2025, Hong Kong (SAR), China (“Hong Kong”) – KPMG and Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) have announced a three-year initiative focused on habitat restoration, which underscores both organisations’ commitment to environmental stewardship, biodiversity conservation and sustainability.
Once home to lush tropical forests, over 300 tree species and countless interconnected life forms, Hong Kong’s and surrounding regions’ biodiversity has suffered from centuries of deforestation. Today, habitat loss remains a major global threat, impacting climate stability, food security and community resilience.
Launched on Earth Day, the ‘KPMG x KFBG: Boosting biodiversity and ecosystem resilience’ initiative focuses on science-based restoration of local species’ habitats, restoring habitats through planting native trees and shrubs to enhance biodiversity, monitoring and reporting of biodiversity gains from ecosystem restoration, and developing a scalable model for effective reforestation.
This initiative is part of a large-scale, long-term KFBG programme to research the best conditions for nurturing native trees and other native plant species to thrive on this hillside and to regrow into a diverse and healthy forest. KPMG’s involvement will play a part and contribute to the long-term success of not only KFBG’s Habitat Restoration Programme but reforestation efforts across Hong Kong and even internationally, laying a scientific foundation and establishing a scalable model for effective reforestation.
The launch event saw Ivy Cheung, Senior Partner in Hong Kong SAR, Vice Chairman of KPMG China and other KPMG employees, joining KFBG’s Angela Wong, Head of Communication and Partnerships, at the KFBG site in Lam Tsuen Valley. The ceremony was followed by the planting of the first batch of native trees and shrubs. An additional Earth Day event for KPMG staff and alumni will be hosted on Saturday, 26 April, and will be followed by around 20 additional activities focusing on nature conservation and promoting sustainable living over the next three years.
In 2025, KPMG is celebrating its 80th anniversary in Hong Kong. Over the past eight decades, KPMG has built lasting trust with its clients and the local community – a core value reflected in its anniversary theme, ‘80 Years of Trust.’ This project with KFBG marks a key milestone in KPMG’s commitment to environmental responsibility and creating a meaningful legacy for Hong Kong.
Even before establishing the KPMG Foundation in 2008, the firm had a long history of volunteering and community engagement. One of KPMG’s values, ‘For Better – We do what matters,’ highlights its dedication to broader societal impact. In FY24 alone, KPMG people contributed ~15,850 volunteer hours nationally, driven by initiatives such as Community Day, which enables every employee to dedicate at least eight paid hours annually to volunteering.
