OUR LEAD ARTICLE for this issue (and a three-page feature inside) focuses on the disastrous developments at Sham Chung marsh, which may set a dangerous precedent for the treatment of other similarly unprotected wetlands - such as Luk Keng, Kuk Po and Sam A Tsuen -across the territory. The need for such sites to be brought under an improved, more rigorous protected areas system has never been more urgent. Some readers may feel that this issue suffers from a surfeit of fish. However, the editor doesn't: there's plenty of stuff about insects, herps and mammals to balance things out. Three important new books are given the Porcupine! review treatment. Yvonne Sadovy weighs in on the artificial reefs issue, Neil Hutchinson gets into fable-telling mood, Gordon Maxwell attacks Six Papers That Shook with characteristic alacrity, Steve Pointing introduces himself, and the strangely absent Richard Corlett receives a taxonomic boot from Tim Utteridge. Oh, and Porc is coming back in the next issue, by popular demand (of all things).
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