Almost 6,000 species of marine life were recorded in Hong Kong waters last year alone by researchers at the Swire Institute of Marine Science at the University of Hong Kong.
The city’s incredibly diverse sub-aqua spectrum of life accounts for a quarter of the 22,629 species in the whole of China, despite Hong Kong waters amounting to just 0.03 per cent of the country’s seas.
The city ranks just 185 worldwide in terms of land mass but packs a more powerful punch at sea with the 11th...
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