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SCMP (26 Nov 2023) Population control or wipeout? Hong Kong ‘buffalo mama’ worries for Lantau Island cows, wants sterilisation stopped

Lantau Confidential (19 Oct 2020) Buffalo wars: Yu demands answers, conservationists demand protections

Around DB (6 Oct 2020) Jean Leung: Buffalo Whisperer

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South Lantau’s country park and wetlands are home to a substantial diversity of wildlife, including the water buffaloes, Bubalus bubalis.

Introduced to Hong Kong over 100 years ago, water buffalo are not only a recognizable tourism draw, they are an important contributor to our wetland eco systems. The resilient buffalo keep wetlands healthy by eating plants that would clog rivers, creating small wallows that attract birds and other animals.

Unfortunately, our water buffalo are being managed to extinction. With a goal to desex all water buffaloes, there are only a few females that can bear young. We advocate for a water buffalo management plan that maintains water buffaloes as part of our South Lantau countryside in perpetuity.

We have only 1 surviving calf in the previous year, and no surviving calf this last year. If the policy of desexing continue the buffalo population will be vastly reduced over the next ten years and be gone completely in 30 years.