Fewer than 500 leopard cats (P. bengalensis) are living in Miaoli, a county located in mid-Taiwan. These leopard cats could become extinct because the Miaoli government plans to cooperate with Yulong Vehicle Company, FuLuSo Funeral Service company and other powerful profit-making entities to develop an area that originally belonged to leopard cats. The companies have started engineering work even though an environmental evaluation has yet to be fully completed. Nobody should tolerate these activities, but they just want to do it. Please help us to spread this news and make it possible for leopard cats to live safely in the wild. We appreciate your caring.
Thank you all your support. The environmental evaluation committee had temporally rejected the request from the Miaoli Goverment to develop the habitat of the Joho in SanYi, Miaoli, on April 16th. Please keep following this animal welfare issue until a new proposal is provided protect the rights of wildlife.
That area is actually one of the few remaining hilly areas that was relatively well protected (due to Hakka older farmers not being so avaricious), hence they have some very rare animals living there, not only these leopard cats but birds, frogs, insects you name it. I can’t say what I really think on here due to Taiwan’s stupid libel laws but this is a crime against nature. Don’t purchase Yulong cars folks. This is also not the only large scale development in the area, I have mentioned another temple development in the area where they also razed a mountain top.
Apparently it’s not only actual leopard cats that face threats in Taiwan:
Kudos to the MOTC for bringing in the actual artist from Russia—Katya Molodtsova—to try to defuse the fallout from this debacle: plagiarized depictions of leopard cats on trains!
still sounds weird. they invited the artist whose work was copied. but the taiwanese artist got paid, although donated the money after being found out as a scammer. the russian artist then made new art for them and gave it to them for free? how about paying the russian?
Not really. The artist didn’t donate all the money. Chiang charged 3 million NTD for the project, but donated only 250 thousand (less than 10%).
Scammers need to eat too, you know?
seriously pay the russian. she had the grace to do the work for free! the scammer had the grace to scam and take over 90% of the money. this story is ridiculous.
