Hong Kong occupies less than 1 per cent of Chinese waters but “disproportionally” accounts for more than a quarter of the 22,629 marine species recorded in the country, according to the latest scientific study.
Scientists at the Swire Institute of Marine Science (Swims) of the University of Hong Kong said 5,943 species were recorded in city waters.
This put the biological diversity of the 1,650 square kilometres of waters on par with that of the Baltic Sea, which is 200 times...
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