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Saturday, April 10, 1976

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN HONG KONG

The Education Department, together with a number of other Government

departments, voluntary agencies and firms, have been promoting environmental

education in Hong Kong, the Deputy Director of Education (Professional),

Mr. Ho Nga-ming, said this afternoon.

He was speaking at the joint prize-giving ceremony of the school

vegetable planting competition and the school children flower growing

competition.

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Mr. Ho thanked Nr. Chauncey Ng, District Governor, Lions International,

District 303, for a donation of $20,000 for two environmental studies projects

"Shore Watch" which will be launched later this month and "Practical Aquatic

Ecology" which will begin in early May.

Environmental studies projects organised by the Education Department

in recent years include tree-planting festivals, school forestry work camps

and training camps for student conservation leaders. With the co-operation

of the Agriculture and Fisheries Department conservation talks were given to

students.

In addition, the Department was responsible for organising the Clean

Water Survey and the Pure Air Survey which were sponsored by two firms.

Mr. Ho said that more than 50,000 pupils had taken part in the school

vegetable planting competitions. The dude ts come from 90 participating

schools in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories.

He thanked the Lions' for donating gardening kits to the schools, thus

enabling the students to continue with their practical gardening work. This

fitted very well with the aims of teaching environmental studies in relation

to nature study and rural science in primary schools.

/This year