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Presentation by a RSPB Conservation Officer
« on: Apr 18th, 2006, 1:24pm » |
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From: Bena Smith
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 11:18 AM
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Subject: Presentation by a RSPB Conservation Officer : Wednesday 26thApril 2006
Dear all,
Dave Flumm, a RSPB Conservation Officer and Site Manager, is visiting Mai Po in late April. Whilst in HK I have asked him to give a presentation to WWF staff upon his 15 years experience in managing two wetland nature reserves (Hayle Estuary and Marazion Marsh, both in Cornwall England). The presentation should be interesting because he was involved with the sites even before their SSSI designations and then single handedly carried out habitat management with a brushcutter and chainsaw for many years to save them. Marazion Marsh is one of the largest Reedbed sites left in Southwest England and his more recent work concentrated upon creating favourable habitat conditions for Great Bittern. Hayle Estuary is an intertidal area similar to Deep Bay and all of the problems we face here are similar in nature and magnitude. In particular at this site he has to do a lot of community liaison work and tackle an ongoing problem with illegal bait diggers and motorboats. Both sites are popular with bird-watchers and have a regular volunteer programme in place, but education and public tours are low key.
He is well respected ornithologist and naturalist in the UK and knowledgeable in many other conservation areas such as agri-environment schemes, fishing and farming policy, etc. As part of the presentation (or discussion) I am personally interested to know how the RSPB is tackling the AI issue and what their current protocol is.
The presentation is planned for Wednesday 26th April at 19:00 and should last for about 1 hour (plus maybe 20 minutes discussion).
If any person other than WWF staff is interested in attending the presentation please let me know by Wednesday 19th April and I will make arrangements. Currently the venue is to be the PSFSC at Mai Po, but if necessary this can be changed especially if many people wish to attend. Please forward this email to anybody you know who may be interested in attending.
Regards,
Bena.
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Reserve Officer (Research & Monitoring)
Mai Po Nature Reserve
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