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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1988
THE PRINCESS ROYAL VISITS ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANICAL GARDENS
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THE PRINCESS
WAS ROYAL, HER ROYAL HIGHNESS,
THIS (FRIDAY) DIFFERENT ASPECT OF BUSTLING MORNING INTRODUCED TO A TOTALLY
HONG BOTANICAL GARDENS KONG WHEN SHE SAW HOW THE HONG KONG ZOOLOGICAL AND (ZBG) PRESERVED WILDLIFE.
DAVID WILSON, THE PRINCESS MR A. L. PURVES,
ON SEARLE,
ZBG'9
ACCOMPANIED BY THE GOVERNOR, SIR ROYAL WAS BRIEFED BY THE DIRECTOR OF URBAN SERVICES,
DR K.C. AND
ZOOLOGICAL CURATOR, THE HONORARY CONSERVATION WORK AND THE CAPTIVE BREEDING PROGRAMMES.
THE URBAN SERVICES MR PURVES THEN PRESENTED FOUR OFFICERS OF
PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT, WHO ARE PAST STUDENTS OF THE JERSEY WILDLIFE TRUST, TO THE PRINCESS ROYAL, WHO IS THE PATRON OF THE TRUST.
PAK-SIU SINCE 1979, MESSRS WAT CHI-CHUEN, CHEUNG YIU-FAI, WONG
ON-THE-JOB TRAINING AND CHAN KA-HING HAVE EACH RECEIVED A FOUR-MONTH ON THE CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE CONDUCTED BY THE TRUST.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE TRUST IS TO WILDLIFE FROM EXTINCTION.
SAVE ENDANGERED SPECIES OF
BRIEFED ON
THE
THE PRINCESS ROYAL VISITED THE AVIARY AND WAS BREEDING PROGRAMME FOR BIRDS AND POULTRY, INCLUDING SOME RARE SPECIES.
THE VARIETY OF OF AN ENCLOSURE PLAQUE WHICH
SHE THEN WENT TO THE ANIMAL ENCLOSURES TO SEE ANIMALS THAT ARE MAJOR ATTRACTIONS AT ZBG. IN FRONT FOR THE ORANG-UTAN, HER ROYAL HIGHNESS ALSO INSPECTED A WAS LAID BY HER FATHER, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE, DURING A VISIT HONG KONG IN 1983.
WHO
TO
ZBG WAS OPENED
ZBG
FRONT ZOOLOGICAL HAS EVOLVED INTO
IN 1871 AND THE GARDENS' UNDERWENT MAJOR EXPANSION IN 1975. SINCE THEN ONE OF THE INTERNATIONAL-STANDARD ZOOS.
SUCCESS IN 1988
INCLUDES BORNEAN
GOOSE
ROTHSCHILD'S
AND
MYNA, PALAWAN
ZBG'S REMARKABLE BREEDING
TAMARIN, EMPEROR
GOLDEN LION TAMARIN, GOLDEN-HEADED WHITE-WINGED WOOD DUCK,
AFRICAN PYGMY PHEASANT,
ORANG-UTAN, TAMARIN,
91AMANG,
ROTHSCHILD'S
PEACOCK
PEACOCK PHEASANT.
1,000
AND 13 SPECIES OF
TO DATE, THERE ARE ABOUT 300 SPECIES OF BIRDS COMPRISING HEADS, 18 SPECIES OF MAMMALS COMPRISING 70 HEADS REPTILES COMPRISING 40 HEADS BEING KEPT IN THE ZOO.
ZBG, THE AT THE END OF THE HOUR-LONG TOUR OF
INCLUDING THE WAS PRESENTED WITH REPORT AND TWO BOOKS, ONE ON BIRDS AND ONE ON ANIMALS.
SOUVENIRS,
URBAN
PRINCESS ROYAL COUNCIL
ANNUAL
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