The Incense Cedar tree is a large, majestic, pyramidal shaped tree with aromatic leaves and exfoliating cinnamon colored bark. Calocedrus decurrens is native to the mountains of Oregon, California, ...

Ho Pui-han inspects an incense tree in Hong Kong's New Territories on March 27, 2016 Ho Pui-han followed a marker left by poachers into the forest behind the Tsz Shan Monastery in Hong Kong. The sign ...

A gap in the dense roadside bushes near Mui Wo's Man Mo Temple opens to a scene of carnage. Large sandy holes and freshly-cut stumps dot the forest ground where as many as 1,000 incense trees, or ...

Ho Pui-han makes her way along the fringes of a country path, through a patch of trampled undergrowth and then points to a deep gash at the base of a tree. "You can see where they've cut the wood as a ...

HONG KONG – On land deep in Hong Kong's lush green northern suburbs near the border with mainland China, farmer Koon-wing Chan is working to keep a legendary scent alive in the city known as the ...

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Tangled thickets and thirsty mosquitoes safeguard the secret of Koon Wing Chan. Less than two kilometers from the mainland Chinese border, in a quiet shadowy grove by a local village, sits a rare ...

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HONG KONG — On land deep in Hong Kong’s lush green northern suburbs near the border with mainland China, farmer Koon-wing Chan is working to keep a legendary scent alive in the city known as the ...

HONG KONG (AP) -- On land deep in Hong Kong's lush green northern suburbs near the border with mainland China, farmer Koon-wing Chan is working to keep a legendary scent alive in the city known as the ...