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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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