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What listing criteria have Mai Po Inner Deep Bay met to be
designated as a Ramsar Site?
Criteria
- The site regularly holds 16 globally threatened species and 7 threatened
species. Among the globally threatened species, 2 are critically endangered
while 3 are endangered.
- The site is the type locality for 13 species of invertebrates including
one crab species that is found nowhere else in the world.
- In 1999-2004, Deep Bay supported on average 57,000 waterfowl in mid-winter.
- The site regularly holds over 1% of the global populations of Black-faced
Spoonbill (Platalea minor), Black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus)
and Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus).
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