A Hong Kong conservation group will subsidise three foreign projects to help protect migratory birds which live in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway wetlands.
The Asian Waterbird Conservation Fund was set up in July last year with an initial donation of $500,000 from Cathay Pacific.
The fund, managed by the Hong Kong branch of the global conservation body WWF, is aimed at enhancing the conservation of migratory birds in the wetland habitats in the Flyway.
It will subsidise a public awareness campaign for preserving Chao Mai Marine National Park in Southern Thailand, a community-based waterbird conservation activity in Bangladesh, and conservation and public awareness activities in Har Us Nuur National Park in West Mongolia.
These projects were the approved projects in the first round of application for the fund.
Each project will receive a subsidy of about US$4,000.
