Judge Backs Victoria Harbor Preservation
From Times Wire Reports
Conservationists won a legal fight to protect Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor when the territory’s highest court rejected a government appeal seeking to fill in 74 acres for a road, a park and commercial space.
In July, Judge Carlye Chu said government planners ignored a law established to preserve the harbor.
Conservationists are also challenging a 44-acre reclamation project in the harbor.
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