Walk for Nature
The "Walk for Nature" was successfully completed with your support this year.
The Top Fundraising Individual Awards and Top Fundraising Family Awards will be announced by early Dec in our website and in written form to the winners. The donation deadline is end of this month. Please submit your donations on or before 30 Nov 2012, while the tax deductible receipts will be sent out on or before 31 Jan, 2013.
Thanks again for your participation! See you next year!
The Top Fundraising Individual Awards and Top Fundraising Family Awards will be announced by early Dec in our website and in written form to the winners. The donation deadline is end of this month. Please submit your donations on or before 30 Nov 2012, while the tax deductible receipts will be sent out on or before 31 Jan, 2013.
Thanks again for your participation! See you next year!
Walk for Nature 2012
Walk for Nature 2010
Walk for Nature? What is that?
WWF’s largest annual charity fundraising event, that’s what it is!
Thanks to the ongoing support of the Hong Kong public, this year Walk for Nature celebrates its 20th anniversary. We are grateful to all the enthusiastic people who over the years have supported our mission, stepped out into nature and participated in the Walk. This year, the Walk will again be held at Mai Po Nature Reserve – Hong Kong’s renowned Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention – which lies in the Deep Bay wetland complex. The Reserve supports a wide range of species and is an important stopover spot for migratory waterbirds.
Thanks to the ongoing support of the Hong Kong public, this year Walk for Nature celebrates its 20th anniversary. We are grateful to all the enthusiastic people who over the years have supported our mission, stepped out into nature and participated in the Walk. This year, the Walk will again be held at Mai Po Nature Reserve – Hong Kong’s renowned Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention – which lies in the Deep Bay wetland complex. The Reserve supports a wide range of species and is an important stopover spot for migratory waterbirds.
CONTACT US
Tel: 2526 1011
(Select language then press 4, 3)
Fax: 2845 2734
Email: walk@wwf.org.hk
Address: 1 Tramway Path,
Central, Hong Kong
(Select language then press 4, 3)
Fax: 2845 2734
Email: walk@wwf.org.hk
Address: 1 Tramway Path,
Central, Hong Kong
Walk for Nature 2009
Why should you join?
Walk for Nature 2012 aims to raise HK$3.5 million to support crucial WWF conservation work. Your participation will enable WWF-Hong Kong to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature and deliver solutions for a living planet.
For details on WWF’s conservation work, please click here.
Join us and walk for nature in November, 2012!
For details on WWF’s conservation work, please click here.
Join us and walk for nature in November, 2012!
The Walk for Nature Experience
- experience world-class bird watching and many varied wetland habitats;
- understand the management effort needed to develop Mai Po’s vast potential;
- snap hundreds of great pictures, from beautiful scenery to flocks of birds;
- enjoy family fun at the fascinating hands-on checkpoints;
- discover more about nature through our lively interpretation;
- have a chance encounter with one of our buffaloes
- learn the importance of freshwater and wetland environments.
Walk for Nature
Theme of Walk for Nature @ Mai Po 2012: Freshwater and Wetlands
The water cycle is a life support system for our planet and one of the most important sources of mankind’s wellbeing. Yet, pollution from human activities and extraction for municipal, industrial and agricultural usage all across the world threatens the water bodies which people and freshwater species rely on for their very survival. More than 20 percent of the world’s 10,000 freshwater species have become extinct, threatened or endangered in recent decades.
The rapid economic and population growth of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta region over the last few decades has created numerous threats to inland freshwater and coastal wetland biodiversity. In addition to the disruptive effect this has had on the important ecological functions of wetland ecosystems, this rapid development is also causing water shortages and a deterioration in water quality. The landscape of the region is generally mountainous, meaning low-lying flat plains and wetlands formed by sedimentation have been the areas to bear most of this development.
Wetlands are also an important part of the fresh water cycle, acting as both a filter and a provider of this essential ingredient to life. Enjoy a day in the outdoors, learn the importance of wetlands and freshwater ecosystems and see with your own eyes how your contribution helps our environment.
The rapid economic and population growth of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta region over the last few decades has created numerous threats to inland freshwater and coastal wetland biodiversity. In addition to the disruptive effect this has had on the important ecological functions of wetland ecosystems, this rapid development is also causing water shortages and a deterioration in water quality. The landscape of the region is generally mountainous, meaning low-lying flat plains and wetlands formed by sedimentation have been the areas to bear most of this development.
Wetlands are also an important part of the fresh water cycle, acting as both a filter and a provider of this essential ingredient to life. Enjoy a day in the outdoors, learn the importance of wetlands and freshwater ecosystems and see with your own eyes how your contribution helps our environment.