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the provision of funds to support the World

Wide Fund

Hong Kong in

for

Nature,

organising visits for students to the Mai Po

Wild

Life

Education

Centre and Nature

Reserve, and to assist other organisations

providing environmental e du ca ti on activities

for students from time to time.

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peop le

The

work ing

ma jority

of technicians and professional

in the environmental field obtained their

original qualification in a conventional scientific or

engineering discipline. They have become experienced and

some

competent in the field through on-the-job training and in

cases by attendance at courses such as those referred

to above.

In this way they become able to

contribution in depth.

Learned Societies and Voluntary Agencies

make a

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voluntary

There are

agencies

of

conservation

a number of learned societies and

in Hong Kong concerned with the

natural resources, protection of the

natural environment and pollution control, including the

En viron mental Division of the Hong Kong Institution of

of Water and Environmental

Engineers,

Manage ment,

the Institution

the Hong Kong Marine Biological Association,

the Hong Kong Meteorological Society, the Royal Society of

Health and

a valuable function in

others.

They serve

providing opportunities for the exchange of technical

information in the field and the general development of

expertise

in Hong Kong.

in

environmental

matters

Occasionally the Government has directly encouraged thes e

activities through financial support, such as for the

international environment conference "POLMET 88", held in

December 1988 and jointly sponsored by the Hong Kong

Institution of Engineers and EP COM.

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