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Donation to give visitor centre in park a facelift
A $1 million donation from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust will soon be used to sponsor a project aimed at giving a facelift to the popular Sai Kung Country Park Visitor Centre.
The Agriculture and Fisheries Department's (AFD) acting Assistant Director (Conservation and Country Parks), Mr Wong Fook-yee, said the department was extremely grateful to the Charities Trust for the grant, adding that country park visitors would stand to benefit.
Mr Wong said the donation would be used to upgrade facilities and exhibits in the centre with a view to giving it new impetus and innovative themes.
"The existing displays at the centre, which were installed 10 years ago and have since not been replaced, are now showing signs of deterioration. Some of the information in the displays is out-dated and needs updating," he said. The Trust's generous donation could not have come at a time more appropriate than this, he added.
He said the Sai Kung Country Park Visitor Centre was one of the more popular centres in Hong Kong with more than 200,000 visitors recorded last year.
Apart from this one, there are six other visitor centres in the territory. They are located in country parks in Aberdeen, Tai Mo Shan, Clear Water Bay, Shing Mun and Plover Cove as well as in the Lions Nature Education Centre in Tsiu Hang, Sai Kung.
Country park visitor centres are open to the public daily except Tuesdays, between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm.
No advance booking is required for visiting these centres. But organised groups which need information for planning visits to these centres can contact AFD's Conservation Education Unit on 2733 2121.
End/Saturday, August 5, 1995
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