Forces for the Future

Moses Tsang, co-chair of The Nature Conservancy’s Asia Pacific Council, has spent the last 20 years championing impactful investments and community collaboration to protect the planet for future generations

By Tara Sobti

What inspired you to become an advocate for environmental conservation? In 2002, I was invited by a dear friend, Victor Fung, to meet with someone from an organisation called The Nature Conservancy (TNC). I was quickly inspired by the mission of TNC: to conserve the land and water on which all life depends. When TNC invited me to see their work in Yunnan, I immediately accepted. It was then and there that I understood deeply what TNC sought to achieve: to protect our most precious places. I saw how conserving nature can enhance our quality of life. For example, by providing people in a village with a biogas stove for cooking, they would no longer need to walk for hours into the forest to chop down trees to use as…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2025

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