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EDUCATION & ENGAGEMENT 02

Mangroves and mudflats field trips

Walk the soft shore and look down.

In practice

Roots, mud and tide

Students conduct ecological surveys by placing quadrats along a transect line in the intertidal mudflats during low tide.

To study the distribution, diversity and abundance of organisms in the intertidal mudflats in Sai Kung.

What people practise

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Mangrove trees

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Mudflat organisms

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Field survey