ILOILO CITY – An threatened Visayan leopard cat was discovered dead in Antique province recently.
Reymon S. Aguirre, an agriculturist called the online blog writer “Bisayang Mangunguma,” discovered the animal in your area called “maral” lifeless on a mountain roadway in Laua-an town.
AGRICULTURIST Reymon S. Aguirre discovers a lifeless Visayan leopard cat in Laua-an town, Antique province. The animal is noted as a threatened animal. (Bisayang Mangunguma)
Aguirre was on his method to operate at the farming workplace of the Laua-an Municipal Hall when he discovered the dead Visayan leopard cat in Barangay Bongbongan.
He recorded what he discovered online.
“I wanted to create awareness. It’s already an endangered species,” Aguirre informed Manila Bulletin in a phone interview on Monday, August 21.
Aguirre said that there is a native individuals’s group in the location.
Elders in the barangay said it utilized to be typical practice for the native individuals to hunt the maral and consumed as a special.
Aguirre said the maral might have been a target for hunting and got away up until it passed away.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has actually consisted of the Visayan leopard cat in its Red List of threatened types.
The Visayan leopard cat is discovered in Panay, Negros, and Cebu.
