{
  "checked": "2026-10-15",
  "method": "Previous general-website summaries replaced, not relabelled. Identity comes only from the licensed CSDI point feed. Five areas and four designation dates independently recovered from full historical ISD RSS records distributed through DATA.GOV.HK. Four parks have exact-name joins to licensed artificial-reef records. Original summaries translated into 22 languages.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-afcd-afcdlist-marineparksreserve",
      "scope": "Nine bilingual identities and reference points only",
      "terms": "https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/csdi-webpage/doc/TNC"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-isd-gnmis-gnmis",
      "scope": "Five identified historical RSS records, independently inspected full description fields",
      "terms": "https://data.gov.hk/en/terms-and-conditions"
    },
    {
      "id": "isd-rss-2016110300563",
      "title": "Designation of the Brothers Marine Park gazetted",
      "date": "2016-11-04",
      "url": "https://app.data.gov.hk/v1/historical-archive/get-file?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.info.gov.hk%2Fgia%2Frss%2Fgeneral_en.xml&time=20161101",
      "dataset": "https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-isd-gnmis-gnmis",
      "articleId": "2016110300563",
      "rights": "DATA.GOV.HK commercial reuse with attribution; the distributed RSS record only, not photographs or the general website"
    },
    {
      "id": "isd-rss-2019121300659",
      "title": "Designation of Southwest Lantau Marine Park gazetted",
      "date": "2019-12-13",
      "url": "https://app.data.gov.hk/v1/historical-archive/get-file?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.info.gov.hk%2Fgia%2Frss%2Fgeneral_en.xml&time=20191201",
      "dataset": "https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-isd-gnmis-gnmis",
      "articleId": "2019121300659",
      "rights": "DATA.GOV.HK commercial reuse with attribution; the distributed RSS record only, not photographs or the general website"
    },
    {
      "id": "isd-rss-2022042200453",
      "title": "Designation of South Lantau Marine Park gazetted",
      "date": "2022-04-22",
      "url": "https://app.data.gov.hk/v1/historical-archive/get-file?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.info.gov.hk%2Fgia%2Frss%2Fgeneral_en.xml&time=20220401",
      "dataset": "https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-isd-gnmis-gnmis",
      "articleId": "2022042200453",
      "rights": "DATA.GOV.HK commercial reuse with attribution; the distributed RSS record only, not photographs or the general website"
    },
    {
      "id": "isd-rss-2024061400450",
      "title": "Designation of North Lantau Marine Park gazetted",
      "date": "2024-06-14",
      "url": "https://app.data.gov.hk/v1/historical-archive/get-file?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.info.gov.hk%2Fgia%2Frss%2Fgeneral_en.xml&time=20240601",
      "dataset": "https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-isd-gnmis-gnmis",
      "articleId": "2024061400450",
      "rights": "DATA.GOV.HK commercial reuse with attribution; the distributed RSS record only, not photographs or the general website"
    },
    {
      "id": "isd-rss-2024103100493",
      "title": "North Lantau Marine Park established (with photos)",
      "date": "2024-11-01",
      "url": "https://app.data.gov.hk/v1/historical-archive/get-file?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.info.gov.hk%2Fgia%2Frss%2Fgeneral_en.xml&time=20241101",
      "dataset": "https://data.gov.hk/en-data/dataset/hk-isd-gnmis-gnmis",
      "articleId": "2024103100493",
      "rights": "DATA.GOV.HK commercial reuse with attribution; the distributed RSS record only, not photographs or the general website"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/csdi-webpage/dataset/afcd_rcd_1629267205235_74896",
      "scope": "Exact MARINE_PAR joins for Hoi Ha Wan, Yan Chau Tong, Tung Ping Chau and Sha Chau and Lung Kwu Chau",
      "terms": "https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/csdi-webpage/doc/TNC"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/web_table.html?id=950-92041",
      "scope": "Total protected marine area at end2025; not derived by adding incomplete profile areas",
      "terms": "https://www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/page_31.html"
    }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Area is available for five profiles and designation date for four; missing values are omitted, never zero.",
    "Reference points do not define boundaries, visitor access or landing sites.",
    "Artificial-reef records describe installations, not living coral counts or guaranteed wildlife encounters.",
    "Historical conservation aims do not prove present animal sightings.",
    "No general AFCD website text, photographs, access instructions or species counts are reused."
  ]
}