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Green group alarmed at state of Hong Kong’s marine parks and says more waters need protecting

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A report on Hong Kong’s marine parks found they are not being managed on scientific lines and that there are no hard targets to expand the protected areas. The parks make up just 2 per cent of the city’s waters, but environmental group WWF-Hong Kong, which funded the Chinese University study, said this should be enlarged to at least 10 per cent by 2020 and 30 per cent by 2030. It is in the process of updating a marine ecology “hot spot” map to identify waters suitable...

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