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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN-SUPPLEMENT
ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES BEACONSFIELD HOUSE, HONG KONG TEL: 5-233191
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1980
GOVERNOR OFFICIAT IS AT THE LAUNCHING
OF THE WORLD CONSERVATION STRATEGY
The following is the full text of speech by the Governor, Sir
Murray MacLehose at the launching of the World Conservation Strategy at
the Hilton Hotel today (Thursday).
Today the 'lorld Conservation Strategy is launched not only here
We are honoured that in Hong Kong, but in 35 countries around the world.
the World Wildlife Fund's representative, Dr Sylvia Jarle, should be in
Hong Kong for this occasion.
More or less everyone favours the conservation of world WILDLIFE,
but the problem is what anyone is prepared to do about it. Hunan communities
are gradually and shakily accepting the necessity for mutual concessions
to avoid their own annihilation by war, starvation or disease, But in
practice they are very far from accepting that concessions to living with
the world of nature must be made if beauty and interest are not to be lost
and indeed the ecological balance on which life on this planet depends.
It is to stir the world to realisation of this danger that the World
Conservation Strategy is being launched.
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