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... Animals and Plants (Protection of Endangered Species) Ordinance on June 1, 2004. The new measure was to reflect the latest changes in the listing of controlled species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). A licence is required for the import or...

... days, an inter-departmental red tide working group reported today (May 6). Staff of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) observed a red tide at Yim Tin Tsai Fish Culture Zone on April 29. The red tide dissipated on May 1. On May 2, staff of Leisure and Cultural...

... membership of the Advisory Committee on Agriculture and Fisheries (ACAF). The appointments, with a term of two years starting from June 1, 2005 to May 31, 2007, were made by the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food. ACAF is a non-statutory body to advise the Government on matters pertaining to the...

... financial incentives as specified in the package approved by the Legislative Council Finance Committee on July 8, 2005. Under the approved package, ex-gratia payment will be given to the following groups in the poultry business:- 1. Live poultry farmers who voluntarily surrender their Livestock...

... Nature Education Centre in Sai Kung, which is reopened today (November 5) after a year of renovation. A spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said the garden in Tsiu Hang, with a site area of 1,300 square meters and some 550 species of herbal plants, is the...

... nuisances caused by them. "There are more than 1,000 wild monkeys in Hong Kong and their population is increasing at an annual rate of six to 10 per cent." During the years from 1996 to 1998, there were over 430 complaints of monkey nuisances, including incidents of public injured by wild monkeys...

.... The spokesman also reminded visitors that with the new legislative requirements under the Smoking (Public Health) (Amendment) Ordinance that would come into effect on January 1, 2007, both indoor and outdoor areas of the park would be designated as no-smoking areas. It is the objective of the Wetland...

... Illegal shipment of snakes seizedWednesday, April 11, 2007 An illegal shipment of about 1,100 snakes from Thailand was seized at the Hong Kong International Airport over the Easter holiday, a spokesman for the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) said today (April 11). The...

... section 25 of the Ordinance, any person who contravenes section 16 commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $100,000 and imprisonment for 1 year. According to section 2 of the Ordinance, "veterinary service" means doing or performing any act or attending to any matter the doing or performing of which...

... Wan Marine Park and Lok Wo Sha, Ma On Shan respectively on March 1. All three red tides dissipated today. A member of the public sighted a red tide at Tolo Harbour near Yuen Chau Tsai on February 27. The red tide still persists. No associated death of fish has been reported in these occurrences so far...