The Conservancy Association has newly launched the project "Act for Long Valley’s Sustainable Development". It is definitely a golden opportunity for corporations to achieve the following objectives: 

l  Conserving the ecology and preserving the local traditional culture

l  Contributing project revenue to the community through social caring activities

l  Fulfilling corporate social responsibility by pushing forward local sustainable development as well as raising staff's awareness of environmental protection

 

Packages available    

Plan(A)－Eco- & Heritage Tour in Long Valley
 Local residents will lead participants to visit the largest agricultural freshwater wetland and learn about the rich cultural resources in the villages nearby.

Plan(B)－Long Valley Eco-experience
Entering Long Valley's diversified and unique ecological habitat and take real practice of ecological conservation works, e.g. fengshui wood seedling caring activity (can be held in April 2010).

Plan(C)－Long Valley Conservation Day
Combination of the guided tour and eco-experience for participants to thoroughly understand and take part in the conservation works in Long Valley.

     

For enquiries, please contact Miss Yip (2272 0345).
 
 

Long Valley—a birds’ rendezvous

I’m always excited about the arrival of autumn and winter. Excited for what? Apart from great harvest, the bustling farm fields are the other reason. In fall and winter, passage migrants and winter visitors will come to Hong Kong, and many of these birds will fly to Long Valley!

Long Valley is inside the Important Bird Area of the Inner Deep Bay and Shenzhen River Catchment Area, which is a nice local bird-watching place other than Mai Po and Inner Deep Bay Wetland. The common birds observable in Long Valley can be divided into two major categories, water birds and farmland birds, according to their behaviour. The water birds include Ardeids sp., waders, crakes, rails and kingfishers. They choose waterside habitats. Examples of farmland birds are wagtails, pipits, buntings, munias, shrikes, prinias and zitting cisticolas. They like wide open farm fields. I heard from some bird fans that over 110 species of birds had come to Long Valley last fall and winter. It is an extraordinary number comparing with the past figures, and the accumulated number of bird species is over 230 now. In January this year, 9 black-faced spoonbills landed on the fishponds managed by CA and the Hong Kong Bird Watch Society to find food! What a scene!

I found something interesting too—they are not very afraid of us, the farmers. When I work in the fields and see them pecking at bugs, resting and pacing, I feel pleased. Farming not only produce food for human, it creates suitable habitats for birds as well!


Black-winged stilts are passage migrants or winter visitors. They always stay together in shallow water to find food.


The frequent guests in watercrest fields—Yellow wagtails. They love to eat the bugs between watercrest leaves.


 Snipes are very shy that they always hide themselves in the vegetables and grasses. It is difficult to spot them.


Siberian stonechats enjoy standing up high and make “tsack tsack” twitters. Photos provided by Dr. Billy Hau.


The fishpond ecology management successfully attracted Black-faced spoonbills to forage in Long Valley.
 
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