Muse National d'Histoire
Naturelle,
55 rue de Buffon,
75
- PARIS Ye,
Franos
His Excellency Sir Murray Laelabose, K.CM.C., B.B....... Governor of Hong KonES »
Government House,
OH IOE
2 Apr 11 1975
1/
Your rollemay,
At the World Confere nos of the International Council for Bird Preservation, held in Canberra in August 1974, at which I, in the unavoidable absence of the President, took the Chair, a Resolution was unanimously adopted as follows:
RYCOON 13 TNG that the area in the New Territories of Hong Kong men as the Deep Bay Harshes is a wetland of international impartames, and that repeated requests have been made to the Jovernment of Hong Kong since 1962 for its conservation;
REGRETS that conservation measures so far taken by the Government of Hong Kong fall for sbert of those ocnsidered by the caferonce to be meoGDOKSY }
no
STRONGLY URCES the Government of Hong Kong to ensure that so farther deterioration of the habitat takes plase, and to initiate adequate conservation measures in that seation of the wep Bay karches known as the Mai Po Harshes to make it a 3triet Nature Reserve, together with th provision of facilities to make that area of maximm value to soological and botanical science, beth locally and internationally.
This Resolution was forwarded to Your mellendy on 22 November 1974 and
are greatly ocnearned to learn from our National etion in Hong Kong that a bousing estate for 30,000 people is planned in an area immediately contiamom to the Mai Po Farshes (the 'no hunting' area).
hʊmláng'
We have seen a nopy of the suggested lease conditions for the housing estate, and though theas may be adequate so long as the land is controlled and strictly managed by one authority w would, with respect, point out that as the housing units are intended for sale this would not apply ones tatate was secunded.
Cont trus