CITY/REGION: Taipei, Taiwan
MEETUP PLACE: Taipei Post Office (Address: No.114, Sec.1, Zhongxiao W. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City)
DATE: Saturday, October the 2nd
TIME: 9:00AM-2:00PM
MEETUP PLAN: (along with the Oct. 2nd world postcard day meetup) chatting, signing postcards.
While leopard cats are considered a species of “LEAST CONCERN” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the species is on the edge of extinction in Taiwan.There are less than 500 Leopard Cats left in Taiwan. Their natural habitat is highly overlapped with human’s, therefore, their territories often be included in development projects. The destruction of their habitats leads to road kill .
In order to bring the conservation of leopard cat to people’s attention, the Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute (TESRI) under the Council of Agriculture set the day Oct. 5th as Leopard Cat Day.