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The kei wai areas are presently held on Crom Permit and in spite of the fact that certain of the structures were built without formal permission, nevertheless it can be: anticipated that considerable compensation may have to be paid for interference, extinguiching of ancient rights of access etc.
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10.7 Some form of playground should be created near the Tam Kon Chau Police Post to provide an attraction for the local children and thus distract them from the Reserve.
10.8
Basic information regarding the feeding ecology of ducks and waders in the area is needed before a detailed management plan can be prepared for the Reserve, No feeding studies on ducks or waders have so far been conducted in Hong Kong, however detailed studies of a number of species have been made elsewhere. From a knowledge of the flora and invertebrate fauna of the area it should be possible to predict the major food items of many of the species by reference to the literature. This should be followed by observation and pellet and faecal analysis. Limited crop and gizzard samples may also be needed for
· certain species. (For methods of studying the diet of wading birds see Coss- Custard 1973). This research could be conducted by a suitably supervised uni- versity student during the summer and winter vacations.
10.9
Access to the Restricted Access Reserve must, by definition, be by
Permits written permit issued by the Director of Agriculture and Fisheries. should be issued free of charge to everyone who currently lives in the area and all those who live outside but who currently work inside the area.
10.10
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The Reserve should be open Limited public access should be allowed. for one (or possibly two) weekdays each wook, when small parties can be given
No persons a guided tour of the Reserve by the *5. 0. or an Assistant Warden. should be allowed access without an escort except for those people engaged on research or management in the area. Permits should be issued at a prescribed
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10.11 Whilst it is not envisaged that any hides will be constructed in the Reserve initially, applications from authentic bodies c.g. the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, to build a hide should be reviewed sympathetically and suit- able arrangements agreed for its use.
10.12
At present all those people living in temporery structures' along the outer bund have to collect freshwater from a tap by the Tam Kon Chau Police Post. Since mains freshwater will be installed for the Wildfowl Park it would be useful to extend this to a tap on the outer bund and thus improve the living conditions of the kei wai workers. This would partially compensate for the restrictions which the reserve will place on these people.
11. Nature Education Area
11.1
Wildfowl Park
The Nature Education Area would act primarily as an educational und recreational amenity. With suitable publicity it should be possible to attract a number of the tourists who visit Lok Ma Chau.
11.2
It is proposed that thre kei wais in the middle part of the Marshes be developed into the park with a collection of pinioned or wing-clipped wild- fowl (Fig. 5). The proposed area covers about 130 acres (53 hectares), of which about 95 acres (38 hectares) are kei wai, and includes about seven 'ten- porary structures'. It would be necessary to obtain the area from the present kei wai permitees and again compensation would have to be paid. In this case it would also include compensation for loss of livelihood since the kei wais would not continue to be worked.
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