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RECOGNISING that the release of oil has occurred as a result of accidents or negligence, that almost all the oil spills examined have resulted from human failure or error;

RECOGNISING that oil exploitation causes considerable environmental disturbances;

URGES governments to consider the previous performance of a company and its contractors, including the frequency of accidents or spills, in awarding contracts for exploration, exploitation and shipment of oil, especially at sea, and to survey and designate coastal shorelines where onshore oil facilities will be prohibited because of unacceptable risk of pollution and disturbance.

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NOTING that Resolution No. 7 of the XIV World Conference at Cambridge, 1966, concerning the use of mist nets has still not been implemented; (a) URGES all countries involved in the manufacture of mist nets to introduce import and export controls, and to license home sale, so that nets are supplied only to properly qualified persons and organisations, and only for scientific purposes;

(b) NOTING the intention of the U.S. Agency for International Development to use mist nets in an extensive program of control of vampire bats to protect cattle from rabies in Latin America;

URGES that alternative means to control rabies be utilised to avoid the spread of mist nets throughout Latin America;

URGES that the strictest possible control measures be used to ensure that the nets are used only on vampire bats.

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RECOGNISING that the area in the New Territories of Hong Kong known as the Deep Bay Marshes is a wetland of international importance, and that repeated requests have been made to the Government of Hong Kong since 1962 for its conservation;

REGRETS that conservation measures so far taken by the Government of Hong Kong fall far short of those considered by the Conference to be necessary j and

STRONGLY URGES the Government of Hong Kong to ensure that no further deterioration of the habitat takes place, and to initiate adequate conservation measures in that section of the Deep Bay Marshes know as the Kai Po Marshes to make it a Strict Nature Reserve, together with the provision of facilities to make that area of maximm value to zoological and botanical science, both locally and internationally.

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