page_title: Hong Kong Wetland Park
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hong Kong Wetland Park / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Panoramics in Hong Kong
context_page_description: Hong Kong Wetland Park is a conservation, education and tourism facility, located at the northern part of Tin Shui Wai, in Yuen Long. It was to be an ecological mitigation area for the wetlands lost due to Tin Shui Wai New Town development.
  The Hong Kong Wetland Park comprises a 10,000-square-metre visitor centre, Wetland Interactive World, and a 60-hectare Wetland Reserve. The Wetland Interactive World has themed exhibition galleries, a theatre, a souvenir shop, an indoor play area and a resource centre.
  Wetland Park currently holds the highest recorded temperature in Hong Kong, at 39.0 °C on 22 August 2017, the day before Typhoon Hato affected the region.
context_section_description: In 1998, a project named International Wetland Park and Visitor Centre Feasibility Study was initiated by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department and the Hong Kong Tourism Board with a view to expanding the ecological mitigation area to a wetland ecotourism attraction. After concluding that it was feasible to develop a Wetland Park at the site without compromising its ecological mitigation functions, and that development of the Wetland Park would also enhance the ecological function of the site to a conservation, education and tourism facility, the concerned parties started the Wetland Park Project, which is one of the Millennium projects of the Administrations.
  In 2007 the park was one of five winners of the Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific Competition, from the Urban Land Institute.
caption: Panoramic view of the park
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