Towards the development of sustainability indicators for marine biodiversity in Hong Kong

Liu, Jianhua; Hills, Peter

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-1719(199812)6:3<111::aid-sd93>3.0.co;2-#

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“…Prompt action is required to identify priority locations to implement effective and focused control to protect the overall reef fish diversity, as well as rare or threatened species that are yet to be found in Hong Kong. Clear indication of biodiversity, especially from long-term surveys, is therefore largely necessitated to ensure the identification and protection of biodiversity hotspots, and has been called for since the 1990s (Liu & Hills, 1998).…”

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Thirty-one new records of reef fish species for Hong Kong waters

Chung

See²,

Lam³

et al. 2023

J. Mar. Biol. Ass.

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The implementation of consistent and continuous biodiversity survey efforts over a long period of time is imperative to the examination of temporal diversity patterns and the evaluation of existing conservation measures' effectiveness. In Hong Kong, a marine biodiversity hotspot in the South China Sea, reef fish diversity has been poorly documented due to inconsistent and sparse biodiversity surveys, posing considerable challenges to long-term monitoring of biodiversity dynamics. To fill in the data gap, regular scuba underwater visual surveys were conducted across 55 dive sites in Hong Kong during the wet seasons from 2018–2021. After ~3171 hours of underwater survey, 31 reef fish species from 14 families that are new to Hong Kong have been recorded, including species from Acanthuridae, Chaetodontidae, Diodontidae, Gobiidae, Labridae, Mullidae, Nemipteridae, Pinguipedidae, Pomacanthidae, Pomacentridae, Ptereleotridae, Solenostomidae, Tetraodontidae and Tetrarogidae. As Hong Kong sits within the natural distribution range of the newly recorded species, the possibility of artificial release was eliminated after careful consideration. These species were all found outside the currently established Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Hong Kong, indicating the need for comprehensive research to identify potential marine reef fish hotspots in areas that are unprotected thus far. Our findings demonstrate the need to establish a long-term monitoring programme that can fill in data gaps of local marine biodiversity to enable the establishment of effective MPAs, and to lay down a baseline for future research and monitoring, so as to safeguard Hong Kong's marine biodiversity in the long term.

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Thirty-one new records of reef fish species for Hong Kong waters

Chung

See²,

Lam³

et al. 2023

J. Mar. Biol. Ass.

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“…The transitional economy in socialist Shenzhen is developing rapidly as its linkages with the global economy deepen. Research works on different aspects of development in either city can be found (Clark, 1997;Shi et al, 2000;Liu & Hills, 1998;Xiao & Tsang, 1999;Chiu, 2000), but no one has attempted to investigate the sustainable urban development issues that both cities face in their unique urban development processes. This study hopes to ll the gap.…”

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Sustainable Urban Development Issues in Chinese Transitional Cities: Hong Kong and Shenzhen

Ng¹

2002

International Planning Studies

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Post-colonial capitalist Hong Kong and rapidly developing Shenzhen in China's socialist market economy have both adopted a pro-growth strategy to cope with challenges imposed by a globalizing economy. This development philosophy has exerted tremendous pressure on both cities, pushing them further away from the path of sustainable urban development. Despite the policy rhetoric of pursuing sustainable development, both city governments have refrained from identifying and analysing sustainable urban development issues. While the top-down elitedominated polities in Hong Kong and Shenzhen are working hard to attain world city status, both cities lack a sustainable development strategy. Without a critical rethink of the growth-rst mentality, sustainability principles such as an ethical utilization of natural resources and aspirations for intra-and inter-generational equity are not put on the policy agenda. Despite recent efforts to clean up the environment, it is uncertain how these two growing cities will proceed as the global economy itself is starting to capitalize on sustainability efforts to further capital accumulation.

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“…Similarly, studies with a coastal and/or marine context, e.g. Liu and Hills (1998), Tam and Wong (2002) and Wu et al (1998) are understandable given HK's relationship with the sea, and with regional and strategic context, e.g. Hills (2002), Chan (2002) and Ng and Obbard (2005) as the SAR is increasingly (re)integrated into the Pearl River delta.…”

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HKSAR's nature conservation policy – a new formulation for an old problem?

Winstanley¹

2006

Property Management

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine Hong Kong's newly published nature conservation policy (NCP) which introduces two additional mechanisms to address sites deemed by Government of HKSAR to be of prime conservation importance. These sites have historically proven problematic, as they have fallen without the proper scope of pre-existing measures to balance development, conservation and social pressures. Design/methodology/approach -This paper reviews the background of such measures and how they inter-relate. It then queries whether the additional mechanisms are an initial move by government to tackle the most difficult sites first, prior to rationalising and integrating legislation for sustainable development, or merely another ad hoc fix. Findings -The new NCP decidedly represents a step in the right direction for Hong Kong's treatment of nature conservation.

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Towards the development of sustainability indicators for marine biodiversity in Hong Kong

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Thirty-one new records of reef fish species for Hong Kong waters

Thirty-one new records of reef fish species for Hong Kong waters

Sustainable Urban Development Issues in Chinese Transitional Cities: Hong Kong and Shenzhen

HKSAR's nature conservation policy – a new formulation for an old problem?

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