Wing Lung Bank and Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society jointly organised a dolphin-watching tour in December 2017. Primary school students from The Association’s Tuen Mun Centre joined the tour with Wing Lung Volunteer Team. They also cleared up the rubbish on a pebble beach in Tai O to learn the concept of nature conservation.
More than ten volunteers from Wing Lung Bank and twenty students met up and embarked at Tung Chung. They first learnt the habits and characteristics of dolphins with the explanation by the tour guide from Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society. No one would like to miss the chance of seeing a dolphin! All participants were lucky to find finless porpoises and Chinese white dolphins just a while after the trip had started. They were extremely excited and rushed to the bow as it was their first encounter.
Then, volunteers of Wing Lung Bank and the students went to Tai O. They were shocked that the less-than-100m pebble beach was defiled by a rubbish dump. They spent an hour on the pebble beach and filled more than ten bags with rubbish like plastic bottles and food packaging paper, etc. They hoped that by making the pebble beach clean again, the environmental pollution can be alleviated so as to protect the natural habitat of the dolphins.
The students gained a better understanding on dolphins and learned the key action of nature conversation is waste reduction at source after the dolphin-watching tour.