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《香港志·自然》自然資源與生態 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Resources and Ecology
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《香港志·總述 大事記》(公元前 5000 年至 2017 年,共 6,500 多條大事) Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events)
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《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口) Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population
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Tai Tam Intermediate Reservoir was completed in 1904, located in Tai Tam Country Park in the Eastern District, with a capacity of 0.08 million cubic metres.
Tai Tam Intermediate Reservoir was completed in 1907, located in Tai Tam Country Park in the Eastern District, with a capacity of 0.686 million cubic metres.
Kowloon Reception Reservoir was completed in 1926, located in Kam Shan Country Park in Sha Tin District, with a capacity of 0.121 million cubic metres.
Aberdeen Upper Reservoir was completed in 1931, located in Aberdeen Country Park in the Southern District, with a capacity of 0.773 million cubic metres.
Aberdeen Lower Reservoir was completed in 1932, located in Aberdeen Country Park in the Southern District, with a capacity of 0.486 million cubic metres.
Tungsten deposits were found east of Shing Mun Country Park, and mining operations began in 1936, with average monthly output reaching 30 tonnes at its peak.
From the 1950s to the 1960s, at the initiative of nature conservation professionals and academics, the Hong Kong Government began planning and preparatory work for country parks.
Shek Lung Irrigation Reservoir was completed in 1955, located in the South Lantau Country Park in the Islands District, with a capacity of 0.13 million cubic metres.
Hung Shui Hang Irrigation Reservoir was completed in 1957, located in Tai Lam Country Park in Tuen Mun District, with a capacity of 0.09 million cubic metres.
Lam Tei Irrigation Reservoir was completed in 1957, located in Tai Lam Country Park in Tuen Mun District, with a capacity of 0.11 million cubic metres.
Wong Nai Tun Irrigation Reservoir was completed in 1961, located in Tai Lam Country Park in Tuen Mun District, with a capacity of 0.11 million cubic metres.
Tsing Tam Upper Irrigation Reservoir was completed in 1962, located in Tai Lam Country Park in Yuen Long District, with a capacity of 0.1 million cubic metres.
Tsing Tam Lower Irrigation Reservoir was completed in 1962, located in Tai Lam Country Park in Yuen Long District, with a capacity of 0.06 million cubic metres.
Shek Pik Reservoir was completed in 1963, located in the South Lantau Country Park in the Islands District, with a capacity of 24.461 million cubic metres.
Lower Shing Mun Reservoir was completed in 1964, located in Shing Mun Country Park in Tsuen Wan District, with a capacity of 4.299 million cubic metres.
On 20 February 1967, the Hong Kong Government established the Countryside and Landscape Conservation Research Committee, whose function was to advise the Governor on promoting natural landscape conservation and to conduct surveys on the care of local flora and fauna and country parks.
Hok Tau Irrigation Reservoir was completed in 1968, located in Pat Sin Leng Country Park in the North District, with a capacity of 0.18 million cubic metres.
Lau Shui Heung Irrigation Reservoir was completed in 1968, located in Pat Sin Leng Country Park in the North District, with a capacity of 0.17 million cubic metres.
Murray MacLehose assumed office as Governor of Hong Kong in 1971, during which he took part in discussions on the financial arrangements and legislative provisions for country parks.
The plan involved the establishment of four country parks, with sites including Shing Mun, Lion Rock, Sai Kung Pak Sha O and Tai Fu Tin on Lantau Island.
Under the Waterworks Ordinance of 1975 and the Country Parks Ordinance of 1976, the Hong Kong Government protected catchment areas including rivers, catchwaters and reservoirs.
In the same year, the Agriculture and Fisheries Department established a new Country Parks Division and Nature Conservation Division responsible for ecological conservation.
From March 1976, the scope of afforestation expanded to areas in the New Territories and Lantau Island that would later be designated as country parks, focusing on enhancing landscape quality and recreational use.
A regulation made in 1977 prohibited any person from possessing or operating firearms, traps and hunting devices within country parks and special areas.
來源 《香港志·自然》環境保護與生態保育(香港地方志中心) · p.163
引用名稱法例/計劃 《1977年郊野公園及特別地區規例》(Country Parks and Special Areas Regulations 1977)
On 24 June 1977, Shing Mun Country Park and Lion Rock Country Park were designated by the Hong Kong Government, becoming the earliest such parks established in Hong Kong.
The High Island Reservoir was completed in 1978 in the Sai Kung East Country Park in Sai Kung District, with a capacity of 281.124 million cubic metres.
In 1979, ten country parks were designated in stages, covering Shek O, Pok Fu Lam and Tai Tam, as well as Clear Water Bay, Plover Cove, and Kiu Tsui, Ma On Shan, Lam Tsuen, Tai Mo Shan and Tai Lam.
Tung Ping Chau, another name for Ping Chau, is the easternmost island within Hong Kong, and the vast majority of its land has been included in the extension of Plover Cove Country Park.
Clear Water Bay Country Park was designated on 28 September 1979, covering 615 hectares in Sai Kung District, in the south-eastern part of the New Territories.
The MacLehose Trail opened on 26 October 1979 and was named after Governor MacLehose; it was Hong Kong's first long-distance hiking trail and remained the longest of its kind locally until 2017, with a total length of 100 kilometres divided into ten sections, starting in the east at Pak Tam Chung in Sai Kung and ending in the west at Tuen Mun, passing through eight country parks.
The MacLehose Trail has a total length of 100 kilometres divided into ten sections, starting at Pak Tam Chung in Sai Kung and ending at Tuen Mun, passing through eight country parks.
Discovery Bay Reservoir on Lantau Island, completed in 1982, was initially used to store fresh water and later converted to irrigation use, with a total storage capacity of 3.5 million cubic metres; the reservoir does not fall within a country park.
On 20 April 1985, the bodies of a British man and woman were found on a hill in the Braemar Hill Road country park in North Point, both having been murdered.
On 8 January 1986, a hill fire broke out in the area near Pineapple Dam within Shing Mun Country Park, affecting 740 hectares of land and destroying about 282,500 trees in Shing Mun and Tai Mo Shan country parks.
On 8 January 1986, a No. 3 hill fire in Shing Mun Country Park spread rapidly to Tai Mo Shan, lasting 35 hours and only being extinguished the following day.
In the early morning of 8 January 1986, a hill fire broke out around Pineapple Dam in Shing Mun Country Park and spread towards Tai Mo Shan and Tai Lam, prompting the Fire Services Department to raise the fire alarm to No. 3.
On the night of 9 January 1986, a hill fire in Shing Mun Country Park was extinguished, with the burnt area reaching 740 hectares and nearly 282,500 trees destroyed.
On 11 January 1986 the Hong Kong government closed 3 country parks, namely Tai Mo Shan, Shing Mun and Tai Lam, as well as the Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve, and reopened them on 18 February the same year.
On 11 January 1986, the Agriculture and Fisheries Department closed 3 country parks (Shing Mun, Tai Mo Shan and Tai Lam) and the Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve, reopening them on 18 February.
The Agriculture and Fisheries Department closed the Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve on 11 January 1986, and at the same time closed the three country parks of Tai Lam, Tai Mo Shan and Shing Mun, reopening them on 18 February.
The Hong Kong Government established the Recreation and Culture Branch, whose responsibilities covered culture, recreation and sport, and also included antiquities and monuments, country park management, and broadcasting and entertainment.
The Lands Department subsequently discussed the project details with Sha Lo Tung Development Company Limited, and the Country Parks Committee had also approved the proposal.
The above six organizations considered that Sha Lo Tung is located in a water gathering ground adjacent to a country park, and therefore did not support the Country Parks Authority's approval of the plan.
In 1991 the Country Parks Board approved the plan on two grounds: the site was remote from the main body of the country park, and the recreational facilities at Sha Lo Tung could be improved.
From 1991 to 1992, Helvella was recorded in the Lantau South Country Park; Peziza praetervisa, Peziza javanica and Sarcoscypha coccinea were recorded in the Tai Po Kau Nature Reserve.
In April 1992, the judicial review brought by Friends of the Earth (Hong Kong) was heard by the Supreme Court, which ultimately ruled that the Country and Marine Parks Authority's approval of the local development project of Sha Lo Tung Development Company Limited was unlawful.
On 13 April 1992, the approval given by the Country Parks Authority for the Sha Lo Tung development project was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court, which also granted an injunction.
From 1996, in response to the establishment of marine parks, the Agriculture and Fisheries Department added two new divisions, namely the Country and Marine Parks Division and the Conservation Division.
Among recorded hill fire incidents in Hong Kong, the No. 3 hill fire that occurred in Pat Sin Leng Country Park on 10 February 1996 was the most severe in terms of casualties.
After the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, together with the Friends of the Country Parks, jointly published over one hundred books on the natural environment and local ecology.
On 9 June 1998, during the Black Rainstorm Warning, plumbing and electrical technician Li Rengguang rescued two children swept away by floodwater at Quarry Bay Country Park.
In 1999, the Agriculture and Fisheries Department issued a notice under the Wild Animals Protection Ordinance prohibiting the public from feeding wild monkeys in designated areas including Kam Shan, Lion Rock and Shing Mun Country Parks.