Protected wetlands in Northern Metropolis damaged by ‘industrial-scale’ shrimp farms, Greenpeace says

More than 13 hectares of protected wetlands in Hong Kong’s sprawling Northern Metropolis development plan have been damaged by “industrial-scale” shrimp farming, NGO Greenpeace has found.

Greenpeace said on Monday that in January, its researchers found 4.3 hectares of traditional fish ponds in the wetland near Mai Po had been turned into large swathes of […] ...