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Subject: [Others 其他] Public Lecture: Look For Black-faced Spoonbill [Print This Page]

Author: mcarrie    Time: 31/10/2008 22:08     Subject: Public Lecture: Look For Black-faced Spoonbill



Black-faced Spoonbill is a globally endangered bird species in the world. It is a migratory bird endemic to East Asia with a total population around 2,000. In the last wintering, about 18% of the world population of Black-faced Spoonbill overwintered or stopped-over in the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay Ramsar Site, which is the second most in east-Asia.

The recent number of the birds is about 7 times of which in 18 years ago, that is an encouraging figure. In this lecture, speaker will go through the effort as well as result of local and international conservation on the endangered birds.

Details of the public lecture are as follow:

Speaker : Mr. LEE Wai Hung, Wetland & Fauna Conservation Officer (Ornithology), A.F.C.D.
Date : 22 November 2008 (Saturday)
Time : 2:30p.m. – 4:00p.m.
Venue : Theatre, Hong Kong Wetland Park
Language : Cantonese

Application: Fill in the application form (http://www.wetlandpark.com/en/whatsnews/detail.asp?newsRcID=330) and fax or email back to the Outreach Programme Unit, Education Section, Hong Kong Wetland Park.
(Fax No.:2617 1158; Email: programme@wetlandpark.com)


「濕地探索」公眾講座系列-尋找黑臉琵鷺


黑臉琵鷺是全球瀕危鳥類之一,它只分佈於東亞地區,目前全球已知約有2,000多隻。去年冬季,約有全球18%的黑臉琵鷺以米埔內后海灣國際重要濕地作為棲息地或中轉站。而在該地越冬的黑臉琵鷺的數目,是東亞地區第二數目最多的。

現時全球的黑臉琵鷺數目已由上世紀九十年代初的不足三百隻上升了約七倍,情況令人鼓舞。在本講座,講者會與大家一起回顧過去,香港及國際間保育這種瀕危雀鳥所作出的努力及成果。

有關講座詳情如下:

講者 : 利偉雄先生(漁農自然護理署濕地及動物護理(鳥類)主任)
日期 : 2008年11月22日 (星期六)
時間 : 下午2:30 – 4:00
地點 :香港濕地公園 放映室
語言 : 粵語

報名方法:填妥報名表格後 (http://www.wetlandpark.com/tc/whatsnews/detail.asp?newsRcID=330)傳真/電郵至香港濕地公園教育組「外訪節目分組」
(傳真號碼:2617 1158 ;
電郵:programme@wetlandpark.com)。

[ Last edited by mcarrie at 31/10/2008 22:09 ]




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