WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1993
IMPORTANCE ATTACHED TO PROTECTION OF MANGROVE
*
PROTECTION OF AGRICULTURE
AND
THE GOVERNMENT ATTACHED GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THE
OF THE DIRECTOR HABITATS, HONG KONG'S MANGROVE FISHERIES, DR LAWRENCE LEE, SAID THIS (WEDNESDAY) MORNING.
ON MANGROVE
DR LEE WAS SPEAKING AT THE ASIA-PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM ECOSYSTEM HELD AT THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
A
THE MOST IMPORTANT CITING THE EXAMPLE OF THE MAI PO MARSHES, MANGROVE STAND IN THE TERRITORY, DR LEE SAID THE SITE WAS LISTED AS RESTRICTED AREA UNDER THE WILD ANIMALS PROTECTION ORDINANCE IN 1975.
"A YEAR
LATER,
IT WAS RECOGNISED AS A
OF SITE
SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE SCIENTIFIC INTEREST TO ENSURE AWARENESS OF ITS
IN OR AND THAT CONSERVATION CONSIDERATION IS GIVEN WHEN DEVELOPMENTS NEAR THE AREA ARE PROPOSED."
AT THE CONVENTION, THE PRINCIPLE THAT
RECENT CONFERENCE OF
HAS GOVERNMENT
ALSO MAI PO MARSHES CAN
DESIGNATION AS A WETLAND OF CONVENTION.
ΤΟ THE PARTIES
THE RAMSAR ANNOUNCED ITS ACCEPTANCE
SUITABLE BE CONSIDERED INTERNATIONAL
UNDER IMPORTANCE
IN
FOR
THE
DR LEE SAID AN
INTERNAL
ON STUDY
THE IMPLICATIONS WAS IN OUT PROGRESS AND PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON THE PROPOSAL WOULD BE CARRIED AT A LATER STAGE.
DR LEE HOPED THAT FORMAL DESIGNATION WOULD BE THE END OF NEXT YEAR.
ACHIEVED AROUND
HE
THE
OF
MANGROVE
THAT STRESSED
LONG-TERM SUCCESS CONSERVATION DEPENDED MUCH ON THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY.
THE WORLD
MAI PO
TO THIS END, THE GOVERNMENT IS WORKING CLOSELY WITH
IN THE MANAGEMENT OF WIDE FUND FOR NATURE HONG KONG (WWF) MARSHES AND IN PROMOTING WETLAND AND MANGROVE CONSERVATION, HE SAID.
AND A
AT THE MAI EDUCATIONAL
A FIELD STUDIES CENTRE A WILDLIFE EDUCATION CENTRE, CAPTIVE WATERFOWL COLLECTION WERE ESTABLISHED BY THE WWF
MARSHES PO
AND EVERY YEAR THEY OFFER NUMEROUS OPPORTUNITIES FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
DR LEE POINTED OUT PRODUCED MORE THAN 12 PER YEAR WHICH SUPPORTED A
AVIAN,
ARBOREAL
ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MAJ PO MARSHES, THAT ACCORDING TO A RESEARCH STUDY, THE AREA TONS DRY WEIGHT OF BIOMASS PER HECTARE DIVERSE
COMMUNITY INCLUDING AMPHIBIANS, REPTILES AND OTHER BENTHIC, SURFACE DWELLING ORGANISMS.
FAUNAL
ABOUT A DOZEN INVERTEBRATE SPECIES NEW DISCOVERED IN THIS WETLAND ECOSYSTEM, HE SAID.
INSECTS, AND PELAGIC
TO SCIENCE HAVE BEEN
/OF PARTICULAR
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