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SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1989

GOVERNOR STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING ENVIRONMENT

PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT IN HONG KONG IS A MAJOR PART OF POLICY, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY

GOVERNMENT (SATURDAY).

A WHITE PAPER ON ENVIRONMENT WOULD BE PRODUCED LATER THIS YEAR WHICH WOULD SET OUT THE POLICIES AND PROBLEMS WE HAD GOT AT THE MOMENT, THE GOVERNOR SAID.

THE WHITE PAPER WOULD ALSO DEAL WITH MATTERS SUCH AS EFFECTIVE WE HAD BEEN IN DEALING WITH THE PROBLEMS AND, WHERE THOUGHT WE HAD NOT BEEN SUFFICIENTLY EFFECTIVE, WHAT NEW PROPOSALS SHOULD PUT FORWARD, HE ADDED.

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SIR DAVID WAS SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER A VISIT TO MAI PO TO SEE PROGRESS OF THE 1989 BIG BIRD RACE ORGANISED BY THE WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE HONG KONG.

ASKED IF HONG KONG SHOULD HAVE TOUGHER LAWS ΤΟ PROTECT ENVIRONMENT, SIR DAVID SAID THE WHITE PAPER WOULD PROVIDE A CHANCE FOR THE PUBLIC TO PUT FORWARD THEIR IDEAS INCLUDING THE QUESTION OF WHETHER WE SHOULD HAVE SOME TOUGHER LAWS ON POLLUTION.

NOTING THAT MAI PO WAS A VERY SPLENDID FACILITY, SIR DAVID SAID WE NEEDED PLACES LIKE THIS WHICH PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO COME AND SEE WILDLIFE AND ALSO AS AN EDUCATIONAL FACILITY.

"I WAS STRUCK BY THE FACT THAT OF THE ABOUT 28,000 PEOPLE WHO ΤΟ CAME HERE LAST YEAR, A VERY LARGE NUMBER WERE STUDENTS COMING HERE LEARN ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT. ENVIRONMENT IS SOMETHING WHICH I AM PERSONALLY VERY KEEN THAT WE SHOULD PRESERVE IN HONG KONG AND MAINTAIN.

POLICY THAT WE SHOULD "AND IT IS A MAJOR PART OF GOVERNMENT

SURE THAT NOW BE PUTTING A LOT OF EFFORT INTO THE ENVIRONMENT MAKING

SOME OF THE DAMAGES TO THE WE KEEP UP STANDARDS, THAT WE REPAIR ENVIRONMENT THAT HAVE BEEN DONE OVER THE PAST YEARS OF RAPID ECONOMIC ADVANCE," SIR DAVID ADDED.

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