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Recently, a so-called ‘cat mom’ who was feeding wild cats in Bukhansan National Park was arrested by the police after assaulting an employee of the National Park Service.
Feeding cats in national parks is prohibited as an ‘ecological disturbance’, but conflicts are repeating because the general public is unaware of it.
This is a report by Kim Dae-gyeom, a reporter.
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Bukhansan National Park rest area in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do.
Two police officers try to subdue a woman in a mountaineering suit.
But a woman who resists fiercely.
I kick as much as I can on a National Park Service employee who helps the police.
A woman steps on the feet of a police officer with all her might to pick up the glasses that have fallen even after handcuffing them.
[가해 여성 : 어휴 대단하네. 안경, 안경. 안경 이 XX야. 안경, 안경, 안경. 이 XX 놈아.]
When an employee of the industrial complex picks up the glasses and tries to put them on, he kicks them again.
[가해 여성 : 모자는 어쩌고? 안경 끼워. 야 이 XX 놈아. 안경 끼워!]
On the 2nd of last month, a woman in her 40s was feeding a cat and when an employee of the industrial complex stopped it, she was swearing and assaulting.
An employee who was hit in the eye by an unknown liquid thrown by the assailant was hospitalized for over a month and a half.
[A 씨 / 북한산 국립공원공단 직원 : 눈이 굉장히 심하게 뻑뻑하고, 시리고 아프고 해서 특히 저녁에 잠을 못 잡니다 아파서. 그런 고통을 저는 금방 괜찮아 질 줄 알았는데 한 달 이상 그러더라고요.]
It is known that the assailant said that she was just trying to feed the cat during the police investigation, but the staff stopped her and made her angry and acted out.
However, in the case of national parks, if you feed stray cats, there is a risk of ecological disturbance due to an increase in population, so feeding is prohibited.
This is because wild cats living in the mountains are top predators along with pigs and other small mammals, such as birds, frogs, and squirrels, which adversely affect the ecosystem.
[김석범 / 국립공원공단 생태복원부장 : 먹이 주기는 공원 내로 유입되는 개체를 증가시킬 수 있으며 이로 인해서 소형 포유류나 조류를 섭식하는 등 공원 생태계 교란을 유발할 수 있습니다.]
In 2000, the World Union for Conservation of Nature listed cats as one of the 100 deadliest invasive alien species.
Bukhansan National Industrial Complex said that most of the wild cats currently inhabiting national parks are exotic species introduced as companion animals, and there is a risk of ecological disturbance.
This is YTN Kim Dae-gyeom.
YTN Kim Dae-gyeom (kimdk1028@ytn.co.kr)
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