Two back-to-back hill fires – suspected to be arson cases – in a Yuen Long wetland this week clearly shows the need for stronger protection of Hong Kong’s best ecological assets, green groups said on Thursday.
Swathes of the northern Nam Sang Wai wetland conservation area were set ablaze mysteriously in two separate incidents on Monday and Tuesday, scorching about 14 hectares of reed beds, abandoned fish ponds and trees. Several trees were charred but no people or animals were...
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