SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1989
WWF CONTRIBUTES TO CONSERVATION IN HK
THE WORLD
WIDE
DEVELOPED MAI PO, IT
HONG KONG HAS
NOT ONLY
FUND FOR NATURE
ΤΟ HAS ALSO MADE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION
AWARENESS AMONG CONSERVATION IN THE TERRITORY BY PROMOTING A GREATER THE COMMUNITY FOR
THE CHIEF THE PROTECTION OF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
THE
ENVIRONMENT,
OPENING CEREMONY OF THE WWF SPEAKING AT THE
(HK) CAPTIVE DAVID SAID PEOPLE WERE WATERFOWL COLLECTION AT MAI PO MARSHES, SIR
HOW MUCH IT HAD ACHIEVED VERY INPRESSED BY WHAT WWF WAS DOING AND SINCE IT TOOK OVER MAI PO.
"SINCE IT
WAS
FIRST
ESTABLISHED
SIX
YEARS
AGO,
THE
CORE
RESERVE HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO COVER 100 HECTARES OF PONDS AND MARSHES, HE SAID.
LE
AND OBSERVATION HIDES WHICH THE FINE EDUCATION CENTRE BEING EXPANDED ALL THE TIME, AND THE PETER SCOTT STUDIES
WOULD COMPLETED EARLY NEXT YEAR
PROVIDE EDUCATION AND RESIDENTIAL WORK AT MA 1 FACILITIES FOR THE MANY PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO VISIT AND TO PO, SIR DAVID NOTED.
WERE CENTRE WHEN
LAST YEAR, NO LESS THAN 25,000 PEOPLE VISITED MAI PO,
SCHOOLS MADE AVAILABLE FOR HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL IN "CATCHING
PROMOTING ON WWF'S CONTRIBUTION IN
COMMUNITY'S AWARENESS ON PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT, SIR DAVID NOTED THAT ITS EFFORT IN WHERE A WEALTH OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS HAD BEEN STUDIES ON THE ENVIRONMENT HAD BEEN THEM YOUNG".
SIR DAVID SAID THE
NEW
CAPTIVE WATERFOWL
COLLECTION
WAS A
WONDERFUL NEW FACILITY.
BE
то ABLE
WALK AMONG VISITORS TO THE COLLECTION WILL LANDSCAPED PONDS TO SEE MANY OF THE SPECIES RECORDED IN HONG KONG SOUTHERN CHINA AND MANY IMPORTED FROM ENGLAND.
THE
AND
THE GOVERNMENT SIR DAVID ALSO SAID THAT HE WAS VERY GLAD THAT
IN ΤΟ PARTICIPATE
SPONSORING THIS PROJECT THE OPPORTUNITY HAD
OPPORTUNITIES IN MORE
THE FUTURE FOR AND WAS SURE THERE WOULD BE CO-OPERATION AND MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS SUCH AS THIS.
COMMITTEE, PROJECTS
DR K.C. MILLION DONATION WHICH THE PURPOSE AND TO THE BUILDING OF A SECURE
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE WWF (HK) SEARLE, THANKED THE GOVERNMENT FOR ITS $1.97 ENABLED WWF (HK) TO ACQUIRE FOUR FISH PONDS FOR CARRY OUT THE NECESSARY LANDSCAPING, AND PERIMETER FENCE AND THE PURCHASE OF THE INITIAL BIRDS.
OF
WHICH 54 WETLANDS FREE OF
ALTOGETHER THE COLLECTION CONTAINS 170 WATERFOWL HAVE BEEN DONATED BY THE LATE SIR PETER SCOTT'S WILDFOWL AND AND FLOWN INTO HÙNG HONG TRUST AT SLIMBRIDGE IN BRITAIN CHARGE BY CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS.
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