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Fred
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Re: Mai Po closure 關閉米埔自然保護區
« Reply #45 on: Mar 28th, 2006, 9:08pm » |
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It is just a standard reply letter edited by a wordprocessor. It takes less than a minute to send a reply. The govt is not doing anything else at the moment. They have enough justifications to stay their decisions, whether they are relevant or not. We are obviously the minority to be ignored. 
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Little Dolphin
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Re: Mai Po closure 關閉米埔自然保護區
« Reply #46 on: Mar 28th, 2006, 11:20pm » |
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on Mar 28th, 2006, 3:02pm, johnallcock wrote:| I later even tried replying to the AFCD response, but the email was bounced back by the AFCD server! |
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Perhaps the AFCD e-mail has been overloaded by our e-mails.  Maybe we can try pen and paper letters. Perhaps they'll take written letters more seriously. 
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Re: Mai Po closure 關閉米埔自然保護區
« Reply #47 on: Mar 30th, 2006, 5:26am » |
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Is Birdw Soc trying media in HK, pushing to get out info re H5N1 and wild birds, instead of disinfo? Plenty of press releases going out?
(Just emailed Robert Webster, re my concerns over disinfo he feeds media re wild birds and H5N1)
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johnallcock
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Re: Mai Po closure 關閉米埔自然保護區
« Reply #48 on: Mar 30th, 2006, 5:06pm » |
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The latest on the government's website is that Mai Po will be closed for 21 days following the discovery of the dead peregrine:
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200603/29/P200603290260.htm
Assuming this means 21 days from the bird being found this means the reserve will hopefully reopen in mid-April (just before Easter...). Let's hope no more dead birds turn up in the meantime.
At least we now have some sort of timetable for when we might be allowed back!
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johnallcock
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Re: Mai Po closure 關閉米埔自然保護區
« Reply #49 on: Apr 11th, 2006, 2:43pm » |
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Following the peregrine infected with H5N1 in Tin shui Wai, the government decided to extend the closure of Mai Po by 21 days.
By my calculations, it is now 21 days since the peregrine was picked up, during which time there have been no further cases of H5N1 in Hong Kong. This means the government should now be considering reopening the reserve.
I have just written to AFCD (at the address given earlier in this thread) to ask them to reopen the reserve - I suggest that others also now try to put some more pressure on the government to encourage them to end the reserve closure.
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