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Making reed screens for bird-watching hides
Student from local secondary schools helped to make reed screens from the end of March to April 2007 for placing around the base of the bird-watching hides at Mai Po to reduce disturbance to the birds from visitors using the hides. |
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Students from Queen's College Old Boys' Association Secondary School making reed screen with the guidance of WWF staff.
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Maintenance of the floating boardwalk
The wooden floating boardwalk through the inter-tidal mangroves that take visitors out to the edge of the Deep Bay mudflat has been in operation since 1986. Over this time, the floating boardwalk has stood up well under the feet of thousands of visitors per year, as well as typhoons and other adverse weather. As a result, the boardwalk needs regular maintenance and WWF staff at Mai Po have been carrying out necessary maintenance work, such as repairing the floor planks, handrails, supports, floats and float covers. |
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Handrail and handrail support of one of the sections of the floating boardwalk has been repaired.
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A set of floats and float covers of the floating boardwalk has been repaired.
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Renovate Rotary Nature Trail
In 1996, the Rotary Club of Hong Kong Northwest helped establish a Nature Trail at Mai Po close to the Wildlife Education Centre. This Nature Trail included a wooden walkway, rain shelter and road-side notice boards. This spring, the Rotarians have once again donated money for the renovation of this Nature Trial, replacing onduline roofs of the notice boards, re-painting the rain shelters and up-dating the educational notices in the rain shelter and notice boards. |
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Field staff replacing the Onduline roof of one of the notice boards.
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New bat boxes around the Wildlife Education Center
Bats are an important group of wildlife at Mai Po and so far, four species have been recorded in the reserve. In mid-April, AFCD¡¦s Mammal Group set up bat boxes at three locations in Mai Po; within the Waterfowl Collection, along the side of pond 16b and by Education Center footpath. Each location has three boxes set 2.5m above the ground, with each of the three boxes painted white, grey or black. This is because bats prefer different temperatures to roost in at different times of year, and the different colour boxes will absorb heat in a different way so that some boxes will be cooler, others will be warmer. It is hoped that these boxes will provide sites to encourage bats to roost and breed. |
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A set of three bat boxes with different colour set up by Education Center footpath.
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