Green group wants Hong Kong Gun Club to stop littering Shing Mun Reservoir catchment area
- Lead pellets, plastic bits, fragments of clay pigeons found in area next to Hong Kong Gun Club
- Government took club to court for polluting water collection drain, but failed ‘on technicality’
The Green Earth, an NGO in Hong Kong, wants the government to revoke the lease of one of the city’s gun clubs if it does not start cleaning up after itself.
They made this call after the government failed last month in an attempt to prosecute the Hong Kong Gun Club for polluting a water collection drain leading into Shing Mun Reservoir in the New Territories.
The outcome of the case left green advocates disappointed, because litter apparently from the club continues to be seen in the catchment area near its 6.5-hectare premises in the nature area.
On a site visit to a slope behind the club last Monday, the Post found small lead pellets – the shot that fills the inside of a shotgun cartridge – blanketing some patches of the ground. Plastic wads, which propel the shot out of the cartridge, were also found.
Orange fragments of clay pigeons used for aerial target practice dotted the forested area, and were also spotted in a water collection drain nearby.