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Locals setting bad example

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I was very impressed by your editorial of October 6, on how to attract tourists through a green programme to get them to visit the country parks of Hong Kong.

Being a local resident, I like to have a walk in our country parks with my children during our holidays.

I frequently walk through the reservoir areas of country parks, but I was angered by what I witnessed on Sunday, October 12, when I visited Aberdeen Lower Reservoir.

A number of people were already on the top of the dam.

Many of them had brought with them slices of bread and threw bits of bread into the water hoping to feed the fish in the reservoir. Clearly, the fish were not interested in this food.

As a result, the surface of the water was covered with pieces of bread. Surely with so much bread being left to rot in the water, this would be a cause of pollution.

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