后海灣內灣 / Inner Deep Bay
后海灣內灣地區位於新界西北部，其北部鄰近深圳經濟特區。后海灣更被香港特別行政區選定為具特殊科學價值地點，辦同海灣的覆蓋面積約1036公頃，后海灣的主要生境類型包括位於潮間帶的泥灘和離岸淺水區。
The Inner Deep Bay area is situated in the North Western part of the New Territories and bordered by the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone to the North. The Bay is dissected by the boundary of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the portion of the Bay covered by the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) is about 1036 hectares. The major habitat tyes inside the site include an extensive intertidal mudflat of esturarine nature and a bay with shallow water.
每年冬天，內灣的淺水區和泥灘都為約五萬隻來自三百多個品種的水鳥提供豐富的食物和棲息地。其中有二十多個品種被認為是全球瀕危物種類別，當中包括全球約五分之一數量的黑臉琵鷺。后海灣內灣的泥灘和淺水區還孕育了多種具有經濟價值的生物，例如鋸緣青蟹丶新對蝦屬品種和米埔近相手蟹。米埔近相手蟹述只於后海灣有被發現記錄，因此極具科學價值。
The shallow waters and mudflat provide an abundant food supply and feeding and resting grounds for some 50000 waterbirds of about 300 species every winter. Over 20 of them are considered globally threatened, including about one fifth of the global population of Black-faced Spoonbil Platalea minor (黑臉琵鷺).
The mudflat and shallow waters also support a wide variety of organisms which are of economic values, e.g. mangrove crabs Scylla paramamosian (鋸緣青蟹) and shrimps Metapanaeus (新對蝦屬) and scientific importance (e.g. it is the type locality of the Sesarmine Crab Perisesarma maipoensis (米埔近相手蟹) which occurs nowhere else in the world).
地點資訊 Site Details
相關風險 Degree of Hazards
新界西北的發展項目如直接的挖掘丶清淤等工程都會直接對該生境造成威脅。再者污染物的排放也會間接污染海灣。
Development projects in North West New Territories may pose threats to the site either directly through dredging; or indirectly by the discharge of pollutants into the bay.