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FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1989

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THEME

DR LEE SAID THIS WHEN HE ANNOUNCED THE PARTICIPATION" FOR THE 1989 SCHEME WHICH WILL BE LAUNCHED MARCH 19, AT PAK TAM AU IN THE SAI KUNG COUNTRY PARK.

OF "GROUP ON SUNDAY,

LIONS TAKEN THE ITS MEMBERS

THIS YEAR'S THEME, THE HE SAID THAT TO COINCIDE WITH CLUBS INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 303, HONG KONG AND MACAU, HAD LEAD BY CO-ORGANISING THE LAUNCHING EVENT AND MOBILISING TO TAKE PART IN TREE PLANTING ACTIVITIES.

THE DIRECTOR STRESSED THE IMPORTANCE OF TREE PLANTING PUBLIC'S ROLE IN COUNTRYSIDE CONSERVATION.

AND THE

SOIL EROSION AREAS

"TREES HELP TO BEAUTIFY OUR ENVIRONMENT, TO STOP

AND RESERVOIRS AND то REHABILITATE AND SILTING OF STREAMS DAMAGED BY FIRE OR DISTURBED BY DEVELOPMENT.

"THEY ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT IN PROVIDING THE VERY HABITAT FOR THE WIDE VARIETY OF WILDLIFE IN THE TERRITORY.

"THE

MUCH

NEEDED

AND AGRICULTURE

FISHERIES DEPARTMENT REALISES THE IMPORTANCE OF TREES TO OUR COMMUNITY AND HAS SINCE 1957 CARRIED OUT AN THE PUBLIC IN THE ANNUAL COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING SCHEME TO INVOLVE PLANTING AND CARE OF TREES.

PRODUCING "OUR TREE NURSERY IS

800,000 TREE SEEDLINGS THIS COUNTRY PARKS BY OUR YEAR. SOME 400,000 OF THEM WILL BE PLANTED IN

COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING STAFF AND PARTICIPANTS OF THE

SCHEME,

HE

SAID.

DR LEE POINTED OUT THAT SUCH EFFORT IN AFFORESTATION

NOT VISITORS WERE RENDERED INEFFECTIVE IF COUNTRY PARK THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP KEEP THE COUNTRYSIDE ENVIRONMENT SAFE.

WOULD BE MINDFUL OF

HE SAID: "NEGLIGENCE HAS CAUSED 195 FIRE SEASON, RESULTING IN TREES BEING DAMAGED.

1,420

HILL FIRES SO FAR OF HECTARES

GRASSLAND AND

THIS 86,000

DAYS JUST 10

A

FIRE

THIRD-STRIKE

ALONE RAVAGED

THAT DR LEE NOTED

AGO, OCCURRED IN THE TAI MO SHAN COUNTRY PARK AND THIS FIRE 320 HECTARES OF PLEASANT COUNTRYSIDE.

SECTORS OF

"IT HAS THEREFORE BEEN OUR POLICY TO ENCOURAGE ALI. THE COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGER GENERATION, TO BECOME IN PLANTING TREES IN OUR COUNTRY PARKS AND IN CARING FOR THEM.

"PHYSICALLY INVOLVING THE

PUBLIC

INVOLVED

IN TREE PLANTINO PROJECTS CONSERVATION AND HELPS THEM UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF COUNTRYSIDE

CLEAN AND REMINDS THEM OF THEIR OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE COUNTRY PARKS GREEN," HE ADDED.

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