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Mai Po Marshes (Chinese: 米埔濕地; Hong Kong Hakka: Mi3bu4 Sip5ti4) is a nature reserve located in San Tin near Yuen Long in Hong Kong. It is part of Deep Bay, an internationally significant shallow estuary, at the mouths of Sham Chun River, Shan Pui River (Yuen Long Creek) and Tin Shui Wai Nullah. Inner Deep Bay is listed as a Ramsar site under Ramsar Convention in 1995. It also supports globally important numbers of wetland birds, which chiefly arrive in winter and during spring and autumn migrations. The education center and natural conservation area is 380 acres (1.5 km2) wide and its surrounding wetland has an area of 1500 acres (6 km2). It provides a conservation area for mammals, reptiles, insects, and over 350 species of birds. Mai Po Marshes is managed by the World Wide Fund for Nature Hong Kong (WWF) since 1983. WWF is responsible for visits in the reserve, requiring visitors have a 'Mai Po Marshes Entry Permit' to be able to enter the reserve. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department has responsibilities for the Ramsar site as a whole. Deep Bay faces several threats, including pollution, local urban development plans and rising mudflat levels that may arise from intense urbanization, especially (in recent years) on the north, Shenzhen side of the bay. In recent years, it housed over 55,000 migrating birds, including Saunders's gull (Chroicocephalus saundersi) and a quarter of the world's Black-faced spoonbill (Platalea minor) population. However, the overall numbers are declining every year. The critically endangered Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) is still recorded regularly on migration. The reserve also includes inter-tidal mangroves along with 24 traditionally operated shrimp ponds (called Gei Wai locally) to provide food for the birds. Mai Po Marshes receives some 32,000 visitors annually. While the area was taken out of the Frontier Closed Area on 15 February 2012, Mai Po Nature Reserve remains a restricted area under the Wild Animals Protection Ordinance (Chapter 170) in order to minimize disturbance to wildlife. Individuals can apply for a permit by writing to the Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department of Hong Kong Government. The aforementioned Individual Permits normally take about a week to be processed. 38 mammal species inhabit the reserve, more than anywhere else in Hong Kong. Mai Po is home to one of the highest densities of leopard cat in the territory, however they are nocturnal and rarely seen. Small Asian mongooses are quite common in the reserve, often encountered by visitors near Gei Wai ponds during the day in winter. A small population of Eurasian otters, a locally endangered species, is found in Mai Po. The marshes also have rich insect biodiversity, where the endemic Mai Po bent-winged firefly (Pteroptyx maipo) was discovered. Not only was the species new to science, but it was also the first time for the genus Pteroptyx has been recorded in China. To understand the seasonal population changes, distribution and habitat requirements of the species, WWF Hong Kong have been carrying out firefly surveys of the nature reserve. The surveys have also incorporated citizen science participation, and using this approach to further monitor the biodiversity, WWF have incorporated iNaturalist and the City Nature Challenge into activities at their Mai Po centre.

The Sham Chun River or Shenzhen River (Chinese: 深圳河; pinyin: Shēnzhèn Hé; Jyutping: sam1 zan3 ho4) serves as the natural border between Hong Kong and mainland China, together with Deep Bay, Mirs Bay, and the Sha Tau Kok River. It formed a part of the limit of the lease of the New Territories in 1898 in the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory (known also as the Second Convention of Peking). It separates Yuen Long District, North District of Hong Kong, and the city of Shenzhen, Guangdong. Its source is at Wutong Mountain, Shenzhen. Its tributaries includes Ping Yuen River, Shek Sheung River, Sheung Yue River, Ng Tung River, Buji River and Tan Shan River. The Shenzhen Reservoir also flows into the river when it is full. The river flows into Deep Bay (also known as Hau Hoi Wan and Shenzhen Bay). The Mai Po Marshes is at its estuary. Efforts have been made to alleviate flooding and pollution problems through river draining, which produced the Lok Ma Chau Loop.

Yuen Kwan Yi Tai Temple, also called Kwan Tai Temple, stands at the end of Cheung Shing Street in Yuen Long Kau Hui in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The year of its completion can no longer be traced; it is estimated to have been built in the 18th century (1714). The temple is dedicated to Xuantian Shangdi and Kwan Tai, and is a Grade I historic building of Hong Kong.

I Shing Temple is a temple at Tung Tau Wai in Wang Chau, Yuen Long District, in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It was built with funds pooled by local villagers around the fifty-seventh year of the Kangxi era (1718) and is dedicated to Hung Shing and Che Kung. It was declared a monument in 1996.