Fate of 600 goats in the balance as deadline nears to move for Hong Kong project
Cheung Siu-ling says she has until end of January next year to make way for Northern Metropolis, or her herd will be put down
Cheung Siu-ling struggles to fight back tears whenever she looks at the 600 goats she has kept for years at a farm near Hong Kong’s border. By the end of next month, the herd will either have to be relocated or put down.
“I’ve tried so hard to find a new place that fits them, but nothing has worked out yet,” Cheung, who works in construction, said.
“In the past, even if I had to relocate, there were still many options for livestock and big animals. But with more land being resumed by the government for urban development, it has been very difficult this time.”
After the Post published a photograph of the goats on Wednesday last week, a landlord approached the newspaper to offer Cheung a site or an alternative for keeping the herd.
Cheung is among those affected by the recall of sites to make way for the Northern Metropolis, a vast 30,000-hectare (74,132-acre) megaproject envisioned as the city’s next economic powerhouse and housing hub in the coming decades.
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