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Sai Wan, at the southern tip of Tai Long Wan, is currently being stripped bare by a small developer who, according to recent reports, purchased 10,000 metres of land from indigenous villagers for more than HK $16 million. 

As Paul Zimmerman, Designing Hong Kong, stated in his recent email to environmental groups: "the failure of the Government to put planning control over the pockets of private land in Country Parks is now affecting some of Hong Kong's most precious resources: Tai Long Wan, an area which now features on many of Hong Kong's tourism promotional materials.  This is no longer some strange corner of rural land with names no one knows how to get there - the destruction is now reaching our core assets."

SKDC District Councillor, Ken Fung Kit Kong pointed out in his email today to fellow councillors that the land in question falls within the Hong Kong Geopark.  "It is extremely disgusting and ridiculous" he said "that just several months after the overwhelming promotion for the Geopark by our honorable government officials, our government has just nothing to do on such provocative act. It's definitely a shame on Hong Kong from the viewpoint of foreigners and made our government's efforts and determination on protection our last pristine nature questionable."

A protest hike is being planned for Sunday 25 July - Explore will give details as soon as we know them.  We will also provide you with email addresses and names of those to whom you should send your personal views on this issue.

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stripping sai wan
written by george salamon, July 17, 2010

as i´ve always subsribed to: there is no governance of hong kong except by, to and for the capital $. there has always been corruption in the hong kong government, but now it has just completely followed the mainland´s footsteps & it´s just become blatant. there will never be a real ¨country park¨, ¨geopark¨or any other park for that matter, it´s all to do with developers, development (meaning the almighty hong kong dollar).

Stripping Sai Wan
written by Gary Yeung, July 20, 2010

I am shocked to learn about this. Sai Wan together with all the beaches in the region and the surrounding mountains should be all protected.

Sai Wan Action
written by Judy Love-Eastham, July 21, 2010

For details of a planned march on the offices of AFCD (Saturday 24 July) and a self-organized hike to Tai Long Sai Wan (Sunday 25 July) : http://www.exploresaikung.com/...&Itemid=50

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written by David Charles Roche, July 24, 2010

it's disgusting. it shouldn't be allowed to happen. but what do you expect when in HK the only cultural value pursued by 6.5mn people is money and the pursuit of it a shared goal of tycoon and their puppet government whose prime role is to facilitate thycoon wealth expansion.

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written by lfchoi, July 26, 2010

10 yrs ago i was an active memeber of "friends of tailong" n depressed to learn that: this happen again