Pastoral, eh? Who would think that such a tranquil scene can be found a mere 30 minutes’ boat ride away from the insanity of smoke-belching cars and 50 storey buildings that is the concrete canyon of Central in Hong Kong, where no living thing can survive for long?
These gentle bovines are now under threat from irate villagers who accuse them of being big and scary, as well as pooing everywhere. Oh, and they slow down cars as well. Yes! These water buffalo which used to be tools to farmers tilling the land, have now been cast on the scrapheap of history to be regarded as a mere nuisance.
Seeing them close up every day I have to say I can’t see the problem. Yes they enjoy eating crops, but the few areas where stuff is grown around here are all tilled illegally on government land anyway, and the buffalo problem would soon be solved if farmers could be bothered to put up real walls around “their” fields - for example they could use the enormous amount of bricks from building rubble which is dumped illegally everywhere. But because the fields are illegal, farmers choose to use old doors, bed frames, cardboard boxes and anything else that’s at hand, thus further uglifying the already astonishingly ugly face of Pui O, where the buffalo roam.
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