Degradation of wetland habitats in the ecologically sensitive Deep Bay area between Hong Kong and Shenzhen led to another decline in black-faced spoonbill numbers this wintering season, a conservation group said on Sunday.
Continuous development and reclamation works in the area and the decline of freshwater fish farming in both the northwestern New Territories and Shenzhen have shrunk the area of mudflats and fish ponds where the endangered migratory waterbirds roost and feed.
According to the...
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